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How long do the side effects of Lupron/Eligard last?
This Monday I am getting my number 3 and last injection of 6 month duration Eligard/Lupron. This is after 39 Proton Beam sessions which began...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 3 9:21am
Orgovyx and zytiga side effects
I’m a 69 year old, who finished IMRT 5 weeks go and I’ve been on these ADT medications for 4 months now. This last week...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 3 9:52am
Frequent and urine burning
I had been diagnosed with prostate cancer on 4th Jan. 2022with Gleason score 8 ( locally prostate cancer, stage cT2cN0M0). Treatment was ADT Triptorelin 11.25...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 10, 2023
PARP inhibitors or radiation: Any thoughts?
I have stage 4 PC, spread to lymph node and pelvis. Being treated with ADT and Nubeqa, started last September, having an MRI tomorrow to...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 19 5:47pm
Which ADT medication is best?
Which ADT medication is best? My medical oncologist first suggested six months of Lupron, but she was fine with Orgovyx when I mentioned that prostate...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 17 9:27am
Radiation and ADT tips to prepare or what you wish you knew to prepare
Hi Everyone, I’m getting ready to start salvage radiation and hormones and was hoping to get some advice on anything I should be doing to...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 21 8:47pm
Side effects of radiation with hormone therapy & heart conditions
Am about to start radiation (Conebeam) therapy along with ADT therapy. ..Zytiga and Lupron (Eligard). Drs prescribed 40 sessions of radiation and at least 2...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 23, 2024
Anyone take a Treatment Holiday? Intermittent use of ADT (hormone Tx)
I wish there was more info. on 'drug holidays' or 'intermittent use of ADT', with or without concurrent or prior surgery or radiation; especially as...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jun 15 10:43am
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 8:24pm
High Luteinizing Hormone, Normal Testosterone after ADT
A year ago was my last Lupron/Eligard shot after 24 months. Three months ago I had my testosterone level checked, which had come back to...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 23, 2022
ADT. Afraid of it
I’m 4+ 3 Gleason in one core. But recent mri shows tumor growth. New biopsy coming. They want to add ADY and I’m scared to...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 7 12:22pm
Is ED after radiation without ADT permanent?
I was watching Dr Scholz (PCRI) speak about RT and he briefly mentioned that men who experienced ED up to 2 years after treatment, would...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 22, 2023
RALP in Colorado Springs
Anyone have experience with UC health Urologists. Gleason 8 PSA 4.5 PET PSMA and bone scan shows no spread. 6 of 13 cores had cancer,...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 18, 2024
41-days of salvage RT - your experience with side effects?
Hello, First time post, but second go ‘round with prostate cancer. Let me start with my request to the group, then I’ll summarize my history.I...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 4 11:50am
One month of Orgovyx completed
Just a quick update for those Brothers on, or considering ADT with, Orgovyx. Today I started the second month of my 6 month sentence. As...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 13 8:09am
Lifting weights while on ADT: hitting a wall?
I'm 5 weeks into it (Eligard). This is my second rodeo (the first time I was on it for 3 years). I've been doing intense...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 19 1:33pm
Clinical stuldy ADT Relugolix plus Apalutamide
Is anyone here familiar with this study? Title of Research Study: NU MSK18U09: Metacure: Multi-arm Multi-modality Therapy for Very High Risk Localized and Low Volume...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 25, 2023
Gleason 7 (4+3) radiation, but ADT also? Over treatment?
Hello,I will be 80 next August and apart from newly diagnosed PC am in good overall health. I have a diagnosis of Gleason 7 (4+3)...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jun 12 5:00pm
Ablation Therapy - Does It Lead To Metastases?
In trying to research ablation therapies such as TULSA-PRO, at least one source suggests that ablation leads to circulating tumor cells, which tend to establish...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Oct 15, 2022
Newly diagnosed stage 4, how long on ADT before adding ARSI?
My dad (83 and otherwise relatively healthy) was recently diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer that's spread to his bladder, urethrae, possibly rectum, pelvic lymph...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 4 11:19am