Experiences with

Prostate disease

I initiated my 20 dose regimen of IMRT at Duke today on my Gleason 10, stage 4 prostate cancer (Mets in bladder neck and perineal area/seminal vesicles and some iliac lymph nodes). Been on Xtandi and Orgovyx for 5 months which has shrunk all tumors and the radiation is to kill what’s left. My question

my PSA rose from .04 in Jan to now .21 so it’s moving up. I assume this is still too low for a scan to determine where pc is at. I was undetected for 2 years after radiation of pelvic area.

…at least I hope so. I’ve been documenting “My Journey With Prostate Cancer” in hopes of amusing myself and others. Please don’t watch if you think humor is verboten in regards to cancer. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnTvlPIMC_V3Otqe-SUGyufm4STqY3wYa&si=bLnPUuDrOrWXPkAN

They will be presenting some initial data today. They do not work on enhancing killer cells in our body, but in deactivating some of those genes that allow cancer cells to hide from our immune system. They have not tested it with prostate cancer, but the platform is promising. https://www.biospace.com

I guess I don’t understand something. If testosterone supposedly feeds prostate cancer cells, why do many here seemed worried that their testosterone has not recovered? Isn’t it better for the testosterone to be as low as possible versus climbing again and possible feeding the cancer?

Hi folks, really starting to ponder some help here. Quick summary - dx'd August 2023 with metastatic PC. I never stopped working as at the time I thought I didn't need to and being busy would keep my mind off of things. I have gone through chemo and radiation and of course started with Casodex,

I finished rt/ht for locally advanced prostate cancer in 2016 and my testosterone has not recovered.and now I have osteoporosis, I am surprised I have lived this long because no testosterone is dangerous I also have osteosarcopenia and I am at increased risk of other life threatening infections and diseases

Preclinical is not clinical of course, but being a pan-cancer treatment, not only for prostate cancer, and a novel immune therapy perspective, I would keep an eye on this! "has generated an extensive preclinical dataset showing strong monotherapy efficacy across many tumor types. This efficacy is mediated

“This real-world evidence showed a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in survival with apalutamide over enzalutamide in patients with mCSPC at 24 months,” said Dr Neal Shore https://pharmatimes.com/news/erleada-shows-23-survival-benefit-over-enzalutamide-in-prostate-cancer-study

https://youtu.be/FoEWvqdIL9w Another "experiment" in information delivery. Please let me know in replies what you think. In this @Malecare presentation, Dr. Jeffrey Jones, a Navy Urologist and flight surgeon, dives deep into the link between military service and prostate cancer. With experience treating

This study showed that AI-assisted cancer contours reduce underestimation of prostate cancer extent, improving contouring accuracy and negative margin rate achieved by physicians. Artificial Intelligence Improves the Ability of Physicians to Identify Prostate Cancer Extent Sakina Mohammed Mota , Alan

At the 24-month time point, patients who received apalutamide had a 23% reduction in the risk of death compared with patients who initiated enzalutamide. "Apalutamide (Erleada) was found to provide a significant improvement in overall survival (OS) at 24 months compared with enzalutamide (Xtandi) in

I never thought we would be asking this question after my husband got his diagnosis of metastatic PCa in May this year. We thought we probably wouldn’t be doing much traveling anymore. But things are going well so far so we want to seize the moment and we are considering another international trip in

Would like to know if anyone had hormone therapy (firmagon) injected other than in stomach…last time it was uncomfortable…Thanks

Hi all, My Oncologist took me off of Abiraterone due to my liver enzymes being elevated. Took me off for 2 weeks to see if that helped. It did, but elevated when started again. Started me on Xtandi. Not a fan of Xtandi ! Besides a little more back and muscle pain, I am now experiencing flu like symptoms

"The evolution and rise of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) have been particularly notable in patients with oligometastatic disease, where it has been demonstrated to be a safe and effective treatment strategy yielding favorable results in terms of disease control and improved oncological outcomes

With all the news lately about transportation and logistics strikes, we can read about supply chain risk associated with drugs, in our case drugs for a prostate cancer therapy regime. It is known that major healthcare purchasing organizations and hospital consortia have committees on this topic. As

Dad was on orgovyx for a couple of months and his Testosterone levels had come down to 26. Around a month and a half back he added xtandi and the latest T levels came back at 41. MO said to repeat the T test after a couple of weeks and if it shows an increasing trend to shift to Degarelix or some

I have stage IV prostate cancer with a spot on my lung being the only known spread of my cancer. After my chemo regimen, my CT and bone scans have been clean for a year now. And my blood work is perfect at the moment. I am on Zytiga and getting a Lupron shot quarterly. My doc still wants

Originally, over a year ago I was told I had stage 4, Gleason 9, at the age of 86. My scan shown here showed lots of prostate cancer, but after a year on Orgovyx and Zytiga most of the cancer is gone. I'm now 87 and very happy most of the cancer is gone and I'm pain free. However, my fatigue is becoming