At age 80, his life expectancy is not real long. The cancer does not appear to be that agressive. I agree with you that hormone therapy could be avoided....
There is an idea that hormone therapy makes radiation more potent. Not everybody gets hormone therapy with radiation. Could you provide the location and statistics such as PSA and Gleason number and...
https://www.urotoday.com/conference-highlights/snmmi-therapeutics-conference-2019/116008-snmmi-2019-overview-of-the-treatment-landscape-in-castration-resistant-prostate-cancer.html For what its...
As you mention, the criteria to qualify is narrow. And it does not lower PSA, so it is hard to measure benefit except for disease progression. We have a member here who used it and has had a good...
A good thing is that there are already a couple of CDK7 inhibitors already in trials. Hopefully we will find out some positive results in the next few years....
An article on possible use of CDK7 inhibitor for CRPC. https://www.biospace.com/article/research-shows-potential-new-target-for-effectively-treating-prostate-cancer/ "This morning, scientists from...
Article on Carbon Ion radiation therapy not available in USA. "Globally, carbon ion therapy is viewed as the next horizon of cancer care. About 22,000 patients have received the treatment at 13...
For generics, GoodRx can sometimes have better prices than some drug insurance provides....
My urologist assigned me to Nurse Practitioner after cryoablation. She almost injured me doing hernia exam. I now get PSA from male primary doctor. In my case I ask for "diagnostic" / ultrasensitive...
The Only benefit I know of x-rays is less radiation....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apalutamide Erleada / Apalutamide formerly ARN509 has been approved for nmCRPC. Every 6 months is an optimistic view....
Most of these kinds of forums are run as hobbies since they earn little if anything. MSN dropped its forums because it was losing money on them. Ning had to charge quite a bit for its forums and then...
After prostate is gone, I don't think you get a PSA bounce for Salvage Radiation....
I am no expert but you are using ultrasensitive tests that make the rise seem larger. Good luck....
https://www.europeanurology.com/article/S0302-2838(17)30698-X/pdf Jerry I added a clickable version of your link above. Nepol I am guessing it might be approved for non-metastatic CRPC in 2019,...