My dad has prostate cancer and the cancer is too far gone for the "seeds" so the doctors are going to start him on hormone treatment and then after that radiation. Has anyone ever heard of or know of anyone that has went through the hormone and radiation treatment and been ok afterwards?
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The treatment will arrest the cancer and survival rates are excellent the next step would be surgical removal of prostate if necessary. The positive thing is that the cancer is contained and has not spread and has been diagnosed early enough to treat.Prostate cancer is very common in men in the fifty plus age group and often if contained within the prostate is left untreated and just watched but if symptoms become too unpleasant then initial treatment is hormones and / or radiation or in some cases radioactive seeds implanted.
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One of the guys I work wth is going through this at the moment. His biggest complaint is that the hormone treatment is making him gain weight and experience symptoms that in a woman would be described as "menopausal".
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I have a good friend who is a 33 year survivor of prostate cancer and he was treated with hormones and radiation. he was part of the first clinical trial.
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Hello, I had radiotherapy last year and as part of the treatment I am to continue with the hormone therapy for another year or so. Its an ongoing situation that I would obviously rather not be in, but as things stand I am definitely ok at the moment, but as you probably know PSA values need to be monitored for quite a while after treatment. So, in short I can say that, having had the treatment you describe I am ok!
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