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Information on limiting ADT
Anyone wishing to get a better handle on whether and when (if ever) he should use ADT, I suggest considering enrolling this clinical trial.NCT05588128 It's...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 23, 2025
The paradox of testosterone and ADT
It’s a curious thing, really — this blind devotion to testosterone as the prime mover in prostate cancer’s twisted little drama. One might imagine that...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 26, 2025
ADT paradox study.
I found a recent study that challenges the established ADT dogma. I found that the study suggests that androgen levels might have a more nuanced...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 7, 2025
ADT with EBRT and Brachytherapy
Apologies for perhaps asking a redundant question. There are some recent studies that claim that a dose of ADT, when selecting EBRT and a Brachytherapy...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 2, 2025
Encouragement for those on ADT
I have a friend, age 65, who underwent RP two weeks after I did in April last year. Unlike me, he began a course of...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Nov 4, 2024
ADT and effect on kidneys ?
Has anyone had ADT cause kidney problems ? I have been on ADT for 3 1/2 months. Recent blood tests show an elevated level of...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 11, 2023
Fun with ADT and testosterone
I know I’ve mentioned to people on here that I quit taking Orgovyx. I was on Lupron for seven years and then took Orgovyx for...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 11, 2025
ADT and Blood Lipids
Just got my blood test results from my PCP, which do not test for PSA and T - the oncology team handles that. In early...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 11, 2025
ADT, depression and Wellbutrin
It’s not often that I get a chance to be on the forum anymore, but I thought my experience might be worthwhile to fellow prostate...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 6, 2025
Protein intake and ADT
One of the side effects of ADT is muscle loss. I start ADT on May 13. Shortly after I will receive 44 fractions of proton...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 28, 2024
ADT and weight loss?
My husband's been on ADT, elegard injections for over a year and has not gained any weight. He's 5'11" and weighs 153. (His treatment was...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 31, 2024
Numbers After SRT/ADT
I just received my post treatment results after SRT with 6 months of Orgovyx. PSA < 0.05. Had been 0.18 before treatment. T = 688....
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 19, 2025
ADT, Brachytherapy, IMRT...done!
Just thought I'd share. Started this journey in spring 2024. Gleason 4+3. Decipher 0.78. PSMA scan negative outside of the prostate lesion. PSA 13.4 when...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 10, 2025
Guidance to help with ADT decision.
My dad is looking to me to help him understand treatment risks/tradeoffs. After reading posts, blogs, and studies, I am now looking for advice on...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 23 12:15pm
Question on 5 proton treatments with ADT
I’m a 68 yr old male with a psa level of 17.3 grade group 2. My cancer is only in the prostate. I have been...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 17 1:18pm
Endocrinology for ADT Side Effects
It's been 2 years since I completed a 4 months regimen of Orgovyx. I had been advised that Orgovyx was easier to recover from than...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 8, 2025
Beginning ADT and PSA tests
I had my first double dose of firmagon beginning January . I am scheduled for HDR brachytherapy on Feb 25, followed with a dessert of...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 24, 2025
Parenteral Estrogen: an ADT alternative?
Here is a link where this question was examined: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4052190/ Key points I learned: -Oral estrogens were the treatment of choice for carcinoma of the...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 16, 2024
ADT & Radiation, next part of the adventure!
Hi all, My oncologist suggests I start ADT and radiation. He says I have to start the ADT for 2 months, then come 5 days...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: 2 days ago
Help finding a study re treatment: EBRT plus ADT vs ADT alone
First visit with RO yesterday re: treatment of my "low volume mCSPC". I came away with two things he stated in the "studies have shown"...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 16, 2025