A good summary of the recent update (after 13 YEARS?) to the ASCO Guidelines for treatment of men with noncastrate advanced, recurrent, and metastatic disease. When looking at the range of trials and the current lack of consensus on best SOC, it seems our generation of patients are still basically guinea pigs for the medical industry. Be careful out there, Brothers.
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Stay Well, K9
Well Said - By one who knows personally whereof he speaks.
BTW, I wouldn't rush back from FL until the weather is more favorable for your return. Catch more fish, get more natural Vit D, and stay warm and well.
Safe travel for the trip north when you do it. Paz, Senor K9
Guess you may be looking a lot closer to those pictures of you that our missed brother, Gus, used to post. Beware of April Fool's Day! I say stay south as along as you can. Shalom - cujoe
R u vaccinated Nal?
K9 Terror,
The scientific discovery landscape is changing so fast that waiting another 13 years is just not an option. The next update MUST include oligometastatic state treatment as those individuals are already being treated differently using MDT. So many new and promising drugs under development.... Targeted immunotherapy....combinations... Here's to hope for the future and a better chart than the current one.... Thanks for posting...
Fish
NP, As always, your inputs are invaluable, as you have you finger on the pulse of the many advances in science that will one day completely change the SOC for most, if not all, cancers.
To Dr. Virgo's credit, she commented up front about the long time since the last update and also of the need (with the pace of new advances and clinical trial results) for future updates to be done more quickly.
Hope you are doing well in spite of the nasty winter weather you have had recently. In a slight perversion of your now famous clarion call to science, I remind you that . . . Spring is Coming!
As you wait . . .Stay Well, Capt'n K9
K9,
I can not wait for spring....the Lady M and I are sick of winter... every day running the snow blower gets old....next week in WV, there are days in the 40's and one in the 50's and I will not know how to act.... Spring is Coming and it gives us ....Warmth.... and makes old joints happy...
Fish
@cujoe, Thank you for your contribution of your summary for the reality check of real data of “treatment”.
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