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Patrick:
It has been my life experience that when someone says "Don't Worry" they really mean they do not want to hear me talk about it. I am free to worry if I wish, as long as it is out of their presence.
I've certainly have had a lot of "Well you've only got a small chance that it is...." only to move on down the line to a more serious situation.
I did have one oncologist say "Urologist are always too optimistic, just get the radiation and hormone treatment now, you're going to need it". I switched radiation oncologists because I thought she seemed too defeatist so I guess the doctors can't win no matter what they say.
Search and you can find many other drug choices, that are never mentioned by uro docs and maybe not by most onco-docs. World of difference as I have done such and know factually. Glad I quit ADT3 after 2 yrs. and fired my onco-doc in 2005.