Hi,
I just found this interesting website:
bookinghealth.com/programs/...
My husband had 3 treatments in Vienna, Austria, for 14.000 € each, since the 6th of March 2019. The Professor Markus Hartenbach was the only one, who accepted to treat him with Lutetium 177, though my husband had no ADT before. He had only a prostatectomy in November 2018, and 6 biochemical mets since January 2019 (detected by a rising PSA and a Ga68 PSMA pet/ct).
In Vienna, you go home immediatly after the treatment (about after one hour). So you must not stay in a hospital.
My husband has a Gleason 9, stage 4, but no bone mets. Ten days after the third treatment in Vienna, his PSA is now 0.67. The highest PSA after the prostatectomy was 4.40. And before the surgery it was 11.80.
We expect and hope that the PSA will continue to drop now after the third treatment of August 1st. My hubby is now like he was before, and has no fatigue or other side effects at all after the 3 treatments. We are very thankful for this!
Six cycles of Lu-177 treatment
Thankful to Mr LU-177.
Heading to India for LU 177
Congratulations on the good results. I think having read quite a bit on Lu-177, the reasons for the good results could be as follows :- 1) Your husband did not do "chemo" before Lu-177. Neither did he do ADT. 2) His tumors must have been mainly lymph node tumors, not bone tumors.
Still I am astonished that he has had no salivary gland problem whatsoever.
Cheers and all the very best to your husband !!!
Thanks, whatsinaname, for your good whishes!
Good morning.
How are you and how is your health?
Is there any evidence that NOT having chemo BEFORE doing the Lu 177 gives a more favourable result?
I have had 4 ADT treatments (on intermittent basis).
Sincere thanks.
Mike
Hi MKC, can’t quote the exact numbers but my husband has completed 2/3 Lu177 treatments at Fortis in Delhi, India with Dr Sen and my husband has never had Chemo. Our Dr at Mayo said to get Lu177 so it’s not like we did Lu177 without a doctors recommendation.
My husband has responded incredibly well. Data says Lu177 works better before chemo. My husbands lesions were nasty. He had 4 that kept coming back on his spine. After the first lu177 his low tumor burden shrunk 76 %. After the second he’s undetectable. There’s evidence this treatment sooner than later may be better but please ask your doc and do your own research. I’m certainly no expert.