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@rinconingles

I was diagnosed with prostate cancer and treated with radiotherapy 7 years ago ,after that my cancer continued and I'm being treated with hormone therapy, so far not a big problem. Now they want to apply chemotherapy , because of metastasis, and I'm trying to be informed before making a decision whether taking the treatment or not...can someone tell about the real side effects of chemotherapy, I understand that I've got to go through 6 rounds with docexatel....

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Finished 6th treatment Docetaxel 1 month ago, im 47 newly diagnosed in sept 2022 with bone metastasis, in good physical shape: Docetaxel was very tolerable on my case, just need to be careful with yourself with meals, REST after each treatment, and DIRNK lots of water during treatment (+/- 1 glass of water per hour!, add day long)

My most notorious side effect: fatigue, contrary to resting, what you need to do is WALK

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agustin

Ask about xovigo I’m on it now it’s a piece of cake ,I’ve had radiation, 5 chemo treatments , they put me on chemo because they found a new spot that was aggressive prostate cancer I have prostate cancer in both my ribs my sternum and my scapula then this new one popped up that’s when they said they had to put me on radiation and then came to Florida went to Moffitt Cancer Center they took me off the chemo and put me on Xovigo I get six treatments once a month it’s a radiation injection into your bloodstream that goes into the bones and gets absorb blood calcium but if your metastasis is bad they will probably wanna put you on chemo first to knock it down the only reason I went on chemo because of the aggressive cancer otherwise my hormonal therapy was working great good luck DAVE