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Posted 09 Feb 2023 at 20:08

Just had my Cancer confirmed today. I am at grade T3a. 

The consultant advised that due to my age at 75 and having had 3 heart attacks, 5 stents and many meds daily, I am not a candidate for a potential surgical prostate removal.  My hormone treatment starts today which will be followed by a radiography course to, hopefully, kill off the cancer.

Presently I am still very much at ease with this, no doubt worry and fearful anticipation are coming down the line. 

I guess that I need to start getting my affairs in order, just in case it degenerates.

What is the prognosis in real terms for recovery or otherwise from grade T3a cancer of prostate? 

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Posted 09 Feb 2023 at 21:51
Prognosis for a T3a with no spread to bones or elswhere would be anything from 5 - 15 years. Assuming you respond well to the hormone therapy, there is a very good chance that you will live long enough to die of something else
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 10 Feb 2023 at 01:47

I don't think Lynn has accounted for the radiotherapy. If the RT works it will either kill the cancer or knock it back for about five years. I would say with the current treatment plan worst case would be 10 years so I don't think prostate cancer will kill you.

Dave

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Posted 10 Feb 2023 at 09:21
You are quite right, Dave - I was thinking 5 to 15 years just on HT
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 09 Feb 2023 at 21:51
Prognosis for a T3a with no spread to bones or elswhere would be anything from 5 - 15 years. Assuming you respond well to the hormone therapy, there is a very good chance that you will live long enough to die of something else
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 10 Feb 2023 at 01:47

I don't think Lynn has accounted for the radiotherapy. If the RT works it will either kill the cancer or knock it back for about five years. I would say with the current treatment plan worst case would be 10 years so I don't think prostate cancer will kill you.

Dave

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Posted 10 Feb 2023 at 09:21
You are quite right, Dave - I was thinking 5 to 15 years just on HT
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

 
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