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Lupron Treatment Duration: How long were you on it?
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This is perhaps off topic, but I have never noticed a posting about age being a factor when deciding to continue with Hormone Therapy. In Oct I will have had 9 months of Lupron treatments. Treatment plan is 36 months. My PSA has dropped from 12.9 to .09. Gleason was 4 - 4 total 8. Cancer confined to Prostate. I am 85 and in good health for my age (whatever that means) HT is affecting my strength and possibly short term memory. Additional leg weakness could put me in a wheel chair as I also have Peripheral Neuropathy. My question - being I am 85 and my life ahead is short, can an argument be made to do 12 months of HT and then if my PSA number goes up, return to HT? Thoughts???
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I am facing surgery on Aug. 3 to cut the little basta-d our and am on Lupron for a month now. I am 70. This Lupron will stay in your body for a year or longer once you stop it so up to you bud. I don't like it at all but it does kill cancer or stop it a lot.
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Yes, is the short answer.
To this nonmedically trained 73 yr old layperson, there are challenging decions to be made.
It seems that HT is being used in many ways today and for varying lengths of time, and intermittent treatment is one.
Why not try it?
Was 12.9 your highest PSA reading?
What diagnosis and tx path has lead you to this point?
Where are you being treated and what options have been presented to you?
Quality of life is an important issue for all of us with PCa.
As a G9 patient, I am concerned with aggressive growth without tx, and after BCR following RP, waiting/hoping for my HT side effects to diminish after salvage radiation and 4 mos of Orgovyx.
Would radiation be a tx option for you w/o HT, or with a short course of HT?
I think that you are asking the right questions, and all of us are seeking answers.
Best wishes.