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My Gleason score is 7 - 3+4. How long can I live without treatment?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Nov 16 4:39pm | Replies (52)
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@milburnd

Hi!

I had the IRE done at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa Florida. Dr. Julio Pow-Sang was my surgeon. I have been very impressed with the doctors, staff and facilities at Moffitt.

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spino | @spino | Jan 16 11:37am

Very interesting! This is the first I've heard of this approach. From what I just read online, it is an offlabel treatment for prostate cancer that has been approved for cancers in the liver and pancreas. It works by placing 3-5 needles around the tumor and generating a current between them during the interval when the heart is not beating (to avoid interfering with heart rhythms. As such, it works best when there is one or very few nodules of well-contained cancer cells, which could be a gleason 3+4.

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