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can I survive PC (Gleason score 7) with just external beam radiation?

Posted by worldcup22 @worldcup22, Jun 14, 2023

I was diagnosed with PC in Jan of this year. it appears from my biopsy that i am in a high-risk category and my urologist advises a combo of radiation which i started this week and hormone therapy. I balked at Lupron, and he suggested orgovyx. I would dearly love to avoid any sort of hormone therapy and was wondering if anyone on this forum has ha experience with just radiation given my information above? thanks

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geraldo | @geraldo | Jun 19, 2023
In reply to @solidwater "i have had similar experience,,,76 years old, went through radiation ( 39 visits) only missed one..." + (show)
@solidwater

i have had similar experience,,,76 years old, went through radiation ( 39 visits) only missed one day at my gym. You got that right about subjective opinions. I have been doing the lupron for a year now. PSA .01 for about 10 months. I can tolerate the lupron, however my oncology clinic insist I go for one of the high end . dangerous ' treatments' called apalutamide it almost killed me with side effects, seriously . There were things that were never mentioned .Then they wanted me to go to xtandi .Upon doing some research I discovered xtandi is just as dangerous the warning was referring to Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy . This happens to be the exact ' side affect' I experienced w erleada. The oncologist did not even know that !!!!!My point to everyone is do your homework before taking their word for it.I live in Fairbanks Alaska ,kind of a third world country with marginal medical resources.

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Greetings from Ireland. Diagnosed 3+4,with psa in the thirties,i am regarded as high risk. Initially,i was put on Bicalutimide. Even the name sounds like its poisonous. Due to serious palpitations,i had to come off them and go on Firmagon injections with cauuse frequent hot flushes which are really bad at present due to our hot weather.

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