Assuming you are in England, ask for a referral to an oncologist or if the consultant you saw yesterday was an oncologist then ask for a second opinion. Modern approach to a diagnosis like your husband's is now to hit it hard with chemo soon after diagnosis (unless there is a medical reason not to have chemo?) - the research is showing that chemo can make the hormone treatment much more effective for a much longer time.
As for life expectancy - it is hard to say. It will depend on whether you are under the care of a forward thinking oncologist or someone that is a bit behind the times, which type of prostate cancer he has been diagnosed with (there are at least 27 different kinds) and how responsive he is to the hormone treatment. Some men have an aggressive type and no treatment works for very long while others are still here years later - we have men on here that are still around and living an active life 10, 12, 14 years later.
Almost every member on here has been where you are now - it does get better once you have your head round all the information. There are details that will help us to help you , such as the full diagnosis (gleason score, staging (usually written as T3 N0M1 or something like that) and type (adenocarcinoma is the most common) plus which bones it has gone to.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard
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