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4 + 3 = 7: Should I involve a prostate cancer specialist?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 1, 2023 | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
mikewo-will be interested in what your doc says...I am still trying to understand if the treatments are attacking the cancer ONLY or the whole prostrate as kind of a blanket/shock & awe approach
My doc does not have a pet scan machine in Ashland and stated that insurance companies may/may not pay for the pet scan...just wondering if you pursued that point/thx
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Medicare now covers a PET scan. I strongly and highly recommend you get one. Once you personally see the results of a pet scan, the value is incredible. I’ve had aggressive, advanced invasive, prostate cancer for 15 years and had almost every treatment option. The pet scan gave me the best and most comprehensive view of all the different cancer in my body. The spread of bone cancer was very interesting. Doctors do not treat bone cancer until it becomes painful, they usually just let it spread. Which I have been fighting against but too little avail. I should actually start a discussion on bone cancer and its treatments .
My first treatments were a ADT and Lupron- followed by HDR Brachytherapy and 44 radiations.
My cancer has never disappeared- only been restrained. So personally I am in favor of over treating. Living thru this is a pain.