How long have you been fighting metatatic prostate cancer to bones?

Posted by majed @majed, May 4 3:47pm

For how long have you been fighting meatatafic prostate cancer to bones

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Two years for me. Psa at the beginning was 932, last month check up it was at 0.14. I had 10 rounds of chemo along with the firmagon shot and Xgeva shot for strengthening the bones. Just started 3 month treatment of Lupron and Xgeva. I also take Abiraterone and prednisone daily. There are others on here whom have had this longer. It can be a bumpy ride but do the best you can. Best to all.

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Coming up on four years this fall. I wouldn't call it "fighting"; more of a ceasefire.

There's no sign of the cancer right now — no tumours big enough to express PSA or show up on scans — but the odds are that there are still individual dormant cancer cells in me (which we have no way to test for yet). The ADT+Apalutamide treatments are helping them stay "asleep".

Should those dormant cancer cells wake up and decide to start multiplying, it will be time to haul out the big guns like more radiation, Pluvicto, and/or chemotherapy, but hopefully🤞that won't be necessary for many years yet, and we might have better treatments by then. The hormone-therapy "ceasefire" is buying me time to get there.

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