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PSA - 17.1, are Lupron injections necessary?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 11 7:23am | Replies (84)
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@digby2023

I faced some of this thinking and I am 10 yrs younger.
Lupron made me weak and I am still walking with instability which I partly blame on Lupron. However,
it’s an effective part of the process of getting rid of the prostate cancer. I think of this like a mechanic going to
rebuild an engine without a full set of wrenches. Lupron starves the cancer…a good thing because without its testosterone food cancer should not grow.
A PSA score of 17 is about 2 times the level I started on hormone therapy before getting brachytherapy.
I have had all the treatments now and my PSA is 0.022.
Would I elect what I did again? You bet!

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yuliyalt | @yuliyalt | May 1, 2023

Thank you. My grandfather had brachytherapy when he got diagnosed in 2014.
Now, we are trying to decide between continuing with no treatment at all (generally healthy 79 year old male, with Gleason grade/score is 6 and slow rising PSA of now 16.9, localized tumor) and starting the hormone therapy with all of the potential side effects...?

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