Has anyone else in the group been diagnosed with a brain lesion? A routine MRI that was used to look at vertebrae lesion revealed an 18 mm lesion in my cerebellum. We treated in with radiation and will do MRI in Aug to see if we got it and if there are any more that need to be zapped.
Bob Chanin
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I haven't had a brain lesion---yet, but I hope and pray for you that they got all of it.
CERICWIN
Hi Bob Do you know what caused the lesion? I know of several advanced stage prostate cancer patients (including my Dad) who had tumor mass in their brains.
I think that brain metastases from prostate cancer are relatively rare, but not unheard of. Our prostate cancer can metastasize to any part of the body, unfortunately.
But it's easier to treat mets when they're caught early. And with some of the new immunotherapies, we come closer to a cure or remission all of the time. We can only hope and pray and do the best we can.
CERICWIN
They are rare but we may be seeing more because prostate cancer patients are living longer
Some prostate cancer patients are living longer, but some don't last very long, and it appears to me that aggressive prostate cancer is on the rise. A very dear friend of mine on the now defunct Malecare support site was diagnosed about three years ago, at the age of 46.
He died on January 5, 2016 at the age of 49. Another friend, on another site, died at the age of 68, less than three years after diagnosis---and I turn 68 this month. No gifts, please, just certified checks, negotiable securities, real estate, automobiles, and/or yachts, and I'm very fond of emerald-cut sapphires........lol
And I've noticed younger guys on the support sites---even in their forties and fifties.
Sorry to disagree with you, but it seems that lethal prostate cancer is on the rise. Partly due, no doubt, to the proliferation of those silly prostate pills that they hawk on TV, which I took, thinking that I had just an enlarged prostate, instead of cancer, which is why my own cancer was so advanced at diagnosis.
But conversely, to be fair and to encourage others, I know a number of cases where the individual has lasted for ten or twenty years on the hormone therapy alone, and with the new treatments, the immunotherapies showing great promise, anything is possible.
Eric
We relate to your post, Eric. Fourteen months after diagnosis, we are on one of the last treatments, Zytiga and Xofigo, with a PSA of 160. It takes most men many years to reach this point. Age 45. I also believe the treatments proliferate neuroendocrine and resistant cancer cells, further accelerating progression.
I have a 4 small spots in my bones, one of which is in my skull. They were found through Pet/CT scans, I had one 7 month period of tipple hormone treatment and another 7-month period of using estrogen patches. For the past 8 months, I have been on Metformin and Avodart and have been monitoring the growth through regular PSA tests. I considered radiating the lesions but decided to wait as long as they did not appear to be growing. I've had three Pet?Ct scans in the last thee years.
Joe
At 18 mm we had to blast it out. It would have continued to grow. Scheduled for MRI to find out if we got it and also if there are any more.
New lesion on femur
Inconclusive lesion of rib
Soft tissue lesion on liver
Ambiguous sclerotic spine lesion post radiation/ Taking HDT.
MRI found 2 cm lesion on pelvis, doctor said to ignore it.
