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What are the treatment options for small cells prostate cancer?

Posted by spore8 @spore8, 3 days ago

A friend has been diagnosed with small cells prostate cancer. Is there anyone here who have or know of people with this?
He has undergone chemotherapy and now on immunotherapy.
Is he getting the correct treatment?

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Jeff Marchi | @jeffmarc | 3 days ago

Small cell prostate cancer is actually neuroendocrine prostate cancer. Neuroendocrine prostate cancer is quite aggressive. The two guys. I know that have had it have both passed within a year and a half. It is very aggressive and usually fatal. One guy actually went to Austria to get actinium Treatments and when that didn’t work, they also gave him Pluvicto And a PARP Inhibitor. Unfortunately, none of them worked. The other guy I knew was unable to get into a DLL3 clinical trial that had limited participation to women with breast cancer, He was given chemo with docetaxel and carboplatin. That is one of the main treatments for neuroendocrine prostate cancer. It was not successful for him. After having prostate cancer for 16 years, this is one thing I am really fearful about getting.

If you do have a neuroendocrine prostate cancer, look for a DLL3 clinical trial. There might be one available now.

Neuroendocrine prostate cancer does not produce PSA. As a result, it is not real easy to detect. It also doesn’t produce PSMA if advanced. An FDG Scan can find it because it absorbs a lot of glucose which the4 scan can find. Normal prostate cancer doesn’t do this.

One person in this forum had neuroendocrine, prostate cancer in their liver, and they were able to operate and remove that part of the liver. So there is another possible treatment, surgery to remove the parts that have it, but that isn’t frequently available.

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spore8 | @spore8 | 2 days ago
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Small cell prostate cancer is actually neuroendocrine prostate cancer. Neuroendocrine prostate cancer is quite aggressive. The two guys. I know that have had it have both passed within a year and a half. It is very aggressive and usually fatal. One guy actually went to Austria to get actinium Treatments and when that didn’t work, they also gave him Pluvicto And a PARP Inhibitor. Unfortunately, none of them worked. The other guy I knew was unable to get into a DLL3 clinical trial that had limited participation to women with breast cancer, He was given chemo with docetaxel and carboplatin. That is one of the main treatments for neuroendocrine prostate cancer. It was not successful for him. After having prostate cancer for 16 years, this is one thing I am really fearful about getting.

If you do have a neuroendocrine prostate cancer, look for a DLL3 clinical trial. There might be one available now.

Neuroendocrine prostate cancer does not produce PSA. As a result, it is not real easy to detect. It also doesn’t produce PSMA if advanced. An FDG Scan can find it because it absorbs a lot of glucose which the4 scan can find. Normal prostate cancer doesn’t do this.

One person in this forum had neuroendocrine, prostate cancer in their liver, and they were able to operate and remove that part of the liver. So there is another possible treatment, surgery to remove the parts that have it, but that isn’t frequently available.

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Thanks very much for sharing.

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