Interesting article- potential for immunotherapy for Bone Metastases

[mintlatte]

sciencedaily.com/releases/2...

I thought this was very interesting - hopefully there are some actual clinical trials to follow quickly.

[tallguy2]

This is excellent. Thank you for posting!

[hansjd]

Thanks very much for posting this mintlatte. Very interesting. I find it particularly ‘hopeful’ because treatment could involve drugs that are already approved being ‘repurposed’. That’s always good for saving time to Stage 2/3 clinical trials and possible clinical use. Cheers.

[immunity1]

Nice piece of work. =Rob.

[j-o-h-n]

Hello.... You've been a member for quite awhile and this is your first post. Can you tell us more about yourself? Age, location, scores - psa and gleason, treatments, treatment center(s), doctor's name(s). All info is voluntary but it helps us help you and helps us too. Thank you...

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Friday 12/06/2019 8:23 PM EST

[mintlatte]

Not my first post, but I post little and read often.

My husband was 46 when diagnosed in late 2017 with confirmation in January 2018. His PSA was almost 7000 (not a typo) and we only caught it due to swelling in his extremities that was due to widespread lymphatic involvement. There is no Gleason score - because they biopsied his lymph nodes rather than his prostate. We are on Kaiser - so our treatment is hardly revolutionary. He did 12 rounds of doxetaxel and is on Lupron. Just this year we added Zometa - although there is no evidence of bone mets it appears he had quite low bone density. Our toughest has been depression and anxiety, although chemo was well tolerated - Lupron has not been. Since ending chemo his PSA has been at a very slow and steady rise, when Chemo was completed his PSA was at .2 it is now at 1.5, so we are in a holding pattern - PSA not moving enough to move to other options, but moving enough to contribute to anxiety. Mostly I lurk because I know I will need some of this info when we next need to go to bat against this disease - but right now we are in a holding pattern