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Good afternoon.
I heard my doctor compare cancer and metastases to a tree and its roots. The tree is the parent tumor, and the metastases are its roots. If the parent tumor is removed, the metastases begin to divide uncontrollably, losing their connection to the parent tumor.
In our country, people aren't always treated correctly. I spoke with a man in the hospital who had metastases, and the doctors thoughtlessly removed the tumor and administered chemotherapy. Six months after the surgery, metastases began to appear, and he began tearing out the remaining hair. When he went to a major medical center, they shrugged their shoulders and said he needed to fight the cancer with other methods.
What do you think, friends?
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If the prostate is removed, the metastasis that had already existed do not Begin to divide uncontrollably. Not sure where he got this idea, but it just is not true.
I know so many people that had their prostate removed and metastasis they had were shrunk significantly with ADT. Yes, 30 or 40% of the people that have prostatectomy have metastasis show up after, But they are not uncontrollably growing a very fast rates, Prostate cancer grows very slowly.
They have now found that people that have significant metastasis in multiple places do not benefit from the removal or radiating the prostate. For people that don’t have metastasis, removal can prevent them from ever occurring.
I know that about 10 years after my prostate was removed a metastasis was noticed on my spine, but the drugs were keeping it under control. Three years later, it was decided to remove it by zapping it with SBRT. It had not grown uncontrollably.
The big problem is that dormant cells get spread throughout the body before the cancer is even detected. Those cells protect themselves in a way that they can’t be seen by other drugs we have or the tests we do. If somebody has a stressful event in their life, those cells can reactivate and become cancer again. Doesn’t matter whether the prostate is around or not. Again, those metastasis grow very slowly because that’s how prostate cancer grows in the vast majority of cases.
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3 ReactionsThat statement is the most unscientific statement I even heard about any cancer in general. Your "doctor" needs to go back to school or at least stop giving their patients weird explanations O_O.
IF one wants to make comparison to a tree than "fruits and seeds" would represent metastasis and not roots - I am still shocked that your "doctor" said that.
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Cancer is a systemic disease. I didn't understand it before. Now, I understand, and I hope so.
When I was diagnosed with this nasty thing at stage 4, I prepared myself for death. The doctors shrugged and said it is the end! I and deadman ! At the time, I didn't understand anything and just begged them to remove this nasty thing (to perform surgery), but they told me it was too late; the cancer had spread to my bones and lymph nodes, which was technically impossible to remove. This really upset me; I stared at the wall for almost a month, unable to believe it because I had no symptoms! I was prescribed ADT, had chemotherapy, and am now on Erleada. But the question that worries me is whether I'm being treated correctly.
But reading this forum, I see that Gleason 9 tumors are operated on.
The comparison to a tree is an oversimplification, intended simply to show the patient what it's like. The example I was given about uncontrolled growth isn't related to prostate cancer.