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Re: Lupron is intermittent lupron

John- one thing about PCa you will find consistent over the years is, plenty of controversies and it is full of generalities and inconsistencies too. Lupron is not the only drug that is effective on PCa, it is the best marketed and sold drug on the planet. The same year Lupron became marketed, they dropped DES (which used to be patented and worked well on patients). Lupron has around 75% of the LHRH type drug sales and since the 1980's has been well marketed and even sued in courts, along with Zoladex, both were scamming the medical system and combined lost around $900 million in court settlements. It apparently didn't put a dent in there sales, sure didn't put them out of business.

Casodex can be a good alternative to Lupron and costs a lot less (generic), but docs make no money on these types of scripts. Estradiol patches can work very nicely and assist bone density and memory and cost a lot less and like no side effects (not prescribed very often). Not that it is about the money ever (lol).

As for being contained to the prostate, even the docs cannot know with absolute certainty. With low-low stats might be a decent generality of course.

Main thing in taking drugs is monitor various blood markers, psa and urine test like UnTx (for bone breakdown), an oncologist should be following such things. If you fail on one drug, you can usually go to something else and get some duration of control. In late PCa perhaps almost nothing works well to control it, then we are s.o.l. and that is the way it is, from what I have seen over 11 years.

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