Looks like my dad might have to do Docetaxel again. Does it usually work?
His illness doesn't seem to respond very well to hormone treatments. :/
He has been experiencing pain in his knee for a month and a half and then fluid accumulation. She removed the fluid but he has been feeling pain in his leg that has been associated with sciatica. The oncologist wants to anticipate the bone scintigraphy to see if it could be from the disease/metastasis.
Sorry, I'm not very familiar with any Portuguese doctors. I've seen the name of Nuno Sousa at Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil. Porto. Portugal.
My father is being treated in that hospital, IPO. However, as it is a public hospital, doctors are changing constantly. It has always been women. So the name Nuno Sousa is not familiar to me!Thank you once again.
If he already had chemo he could consider Lu 177 PSMA treatment. He will need a PSMA PET/CT to determine if there are PSMA avid metastases. CT and bone scans are much less sensitive than PSMA PET/CT to detect mets.
I was at my MO this week for a 3 month Lupron shot. One of his patients is enrolled at Dana Farber for a BAT trial. Response so far has been positive. BAT works for some.
CUF can arrange somatic/genomic tests if you can't get these through the public system. I think you are entitled to access trials in other countries who are part of the EU - you could ask your MO maybe?
So, my dad has blood work again, and PSA continues to rise, from 300 to 700. He's going to start docetaxel, again, after having already done it in 2020.Has anyone here taken docetaxel more than once?
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