You miss the point of what I was saying, I think AC. Chemo cannot cure prostate cancer; there is no doubt about that. It can kill individual cells and perhaps even clusters of cells and it can shrink a tumour but it cannot cure. People generally (out there in society) think “oh cancer ... cure it with chemo” without realising that there are only a very small number of cancers that chemo can cure, that for prostate cancer it certainly can’t cure but it can weaken the cells enough for other treatments to work.
I don’t get why people don’t get that, to be honest ... it seems pretty straightforward to me. You would never hear of a woman cured of breast cancer by chemo alone; she has surgery and / or radiotherapy with hormones and possibly some chemo to help mop up stray cells. I can’t think of any other cancer except lymphoma where chemo is the radical treatment rather than adjuvant.
No one at Stampede has started claiming, as far as I know, that chemo can kill prostate. All they have said is that giving it alongside RT/HT might make the RT/HT more effective. In AC’s case, there had been other treatment not just chemo, I think?
Regardless of the above - it isn’t available yet, it hasn’t been approved by NICE, it is one small scale study in a much larger research trial so unless you have an onco who can break rules or you can be referred to someone involved in the trials, it isn’t an option anyway.