Prostate Health: I have a friend who was recently diagnosed with a very aggressive form of prostate cancer

I have a friend who was recently diagnosed with a very aggressive form of prostate cancer.?
It has been determined that it has moved into his lymph nodes. In my understanding this is pretty much a death sentence. Any idea how long he might have?
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No,...... that really sad though... :-( I'm sorry
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I don't really believe you can put a Definite date on his death or even an estimate. My g-pa was told after beingg diagnosed with lung cancer he had 2 months. He lived two more y ears before bein told he had 2 more months he died in 2 weeks.
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Only God can answer this. But adenocarcinomas can be fast indeed. The Doctors should remove the Testicles to slow down the monster and give estrogen. Sorry indeed.
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It is hard to say. Sometimes people with prostate cancer live very long if it is not aggressive... If he has less than 6 months prognosis from the doctors, then hospice can be called in to help him out....
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Tell him not to give up. The attitude has very much to do with how long someone lives. Seek nontraditonal therapies and diets also. I will pray for him too -whether you call it prayer, light healing, Reiki, or what -it does work.
6 :
Six months to a year.
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No one here knows the answer to this question. His treatment and survival may come as a total shock to you. Aggressive cancers and stage IV are not a death sentence. They are just more difficult to treat. I know this is true because my son was diagnosed two years ago with one of the most aggressive sarcomas known. He had multiple tumors within the abdominal cavity, some the size of volley balls. He also had lympth node involvment, tumors in the lung, liver, chest wall, large and small intestine, and caked onto the diaphragm. He has done remarkably well considering what we originally heard, but not without alot of work. Do not give up. Do not look at statistics as they never apply to an individual. Cancer is a very individual disease and survival will depend upon many, many factors. It will depend on the age of the patient, response to treatment, overall health issues, location of the tumors, and attitude. There is always hope. Be strong. Are you aware that Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with stage IV testicular cancer with mets to the brain? That was 10 years ago, and look at him now. LiveStrong Foundation http://www.livestrong.org/
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You may want to try here: http://www.dendreon.com/index They have their new cancer vaccine up before the FDA advisory committee this Thursday. If the panel votes to recommend approval the FDA should give the go ahead for manufacture. It is not a "cure" but it can help extend the lives of prostate cancer patients.
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No one knows for sure, it depends upon the person. But you might Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer researcher came out with a paper saying that the best cancer and infection fighter as yet found was Interferon, but, at the time, it cost $15,000 a gram. The good part was that Interferon was a product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your system. Shortly after that paper came out the FDA tried to make Vit C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA says that the RDA for Vit C is 64 mg a day, just enough to prevent scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vit C and a second Nobel Prize for organic chemistry, said 1000 mg a day as a minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick. On a personal note, I was sick twice a year, for 2 weeks at a time, for 20 years, and was flat on my back for at least a week each time. To this day the doctors have no idea what the problem was. After I gave up on the doctors I tried Vit C. I took enough to keep from being sick and just below too much to get diarrhea. It followed a bell curve over 2 weeks with a peak at 40,000 mg a day â€“ about 300,000 over the 2 weeks. I was not sick for those 2 weeks and after a couple of years of that I have not been sick since. I did not dissolve my kidneys, as some doctors said would happen. I did not get any calcium build up or stones and did not dissolve my cones or solidify my joints. Try it, but drink a lot of water â€“ Vit C is a natural diuretic.
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No one can ever predict how long.
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FIrst of all, there is very little good informationt to be found at Yahoo answers, so don't take anything you read here to heart. You would do better to join a prostate cancer support group, such as http://www.yananow.net , or doing your research through the prostate cancer research institute http://www.prostate-cancer.org/ Prostate cancer is treatable, even if it's become systemic. The key is that until the very final stages, prostate cancer requires testosterone to grow. For someone in your friend's position, the next step is usually androgen deprivation therapy, which reduces the amount of available testoterone. As long as he responds to this treatment, he can still have a good chance of five year survival.

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I have a friend who was recently diagnosed with a very aggressive form of prostate cancer