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Anyone had prostate cancer spread to the lungs?
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Thanks, Cher60!
You are the only one I've found with metastatic prostate cancer in the lungs only. Apparently this is very rare. Florida11 sounds like it may be lung only metastasis but he didn't say for sure.
I'm glad your husband was able to avoid surgery and that Abiraterone and Prednisone are working for him. It
sounds like Orgovyx was a better ADT for him than Lupron. This is my second round with Lupron (it was part of my first treatment). I did put on 25 pounds with the first round that I haven't been able to get off no matter how hard I work out and what I eat. My oncologist said I may never be able to get this weight off. My goal now is to keep from putting on additional weight!
After his CT scan which showed nodules in both lungs, did they do a lung biopsy to confirm that the nodules were malignant? That's what they did with me and once they confirmed immediately during surgery that the nodules were malignant, the surgeon made the decision to remove the section of my left lung where the worst modules were located. This is a controversial decision and I'm still not certain it was necessary, but the surgeon was supposedly the best thoracic surgeon in the Northwest, so I went with it.
In any event, it sounds like your husband is doing well and I wish him the best of luck going forward.
Tom
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Hi Tom,
Totally agree about it being very rare to go immediately to the lungs (He had a minor lesion on a single rib on the back 2 years ago but had successful SABR radiotherapy and no recurrence since) these are the only 2 places where his cancer has metastisised to after his prostatectomy in December 2023, we do understand that Cribriform doesn't travel locally but distantly from the prostate, so the rib and lungs fit that description. He has no cancer in the pelvis area or anywhere else.
The oncologist originally though it wouldn't be prostate cancer as its so rare, but was baffled by his ever increasing PSA and no other sites showing. When they jumped from 4 to 10 nodules and doubled in size in 3 months they trialed him on the double hormone therapy to determine if it was prostate or some other lung condition. (his previous CT scans had shown clear lungs). They couldn't take biopsies because the largest of the nodules were now 9mm and the requirement in the UK for biopsy is 10mm, plus they didn't want to risk spreading it by invasive biopsies on smaller than required nodules.
The oncologists agreed that if the post hormone treatment scan revealed good results with both his PSA and nodules then that will prove it is prostate cancer and not something else, as Hormone therapy would have had no effect on general lung cancer, or other lung conditions.
His PSA has dropped from 36.5 to 0.1 as well as a positive result from the nodules either shrinking or disappearing so they are agreed it was prostate cancer in the lungs. It was wonderful news to hear, especially as he is tolerating this drug combination very well. Our friend is also on Lupron and has no issues with it, its been a revelation in how some drugs can react so differently with a persons biological make-up compared to others. We hope these drugs can help keep it at bay for a good while before the cancer becomes resistant to them and keep living life as much as we can.
Good luck to you and I hope your operation has succeeded in ridding you of the cancer, whilst Frank would have been happy to agree to an operation his nodules were spread throughout the lungs from top to bottom so a partial removal wouldn't have been viable for him.
All the very best
Cheryl