I was diagnosed with PC at 58. Mine was highly aggressive. I pressed my oncologist this question…”what is the prognosis for curing this disease?” He hung his head a said “Very low.” (I had a Gleason score of 5+4 to 5+5 and the pc had spread to seminal vesicles and several lymph nodes but not yet to my bones.
Fortunately, my wife wouldn’t accept this and did tons of research. Long story short…we found a doc at Mayo Rochester (Dr. Kwon) that treats PC more aggressively. Eighteen months past my original diagnosis (stage 4) now and my recent scan was clean and my PSA