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my father is 100 years old and was diognised in 2004 with local prostate cancer and since then he was on lupron or zoladex injection every 3 months and casodex was added in 2016 the last 24 months his psa started climbing from 23 al the way to 84 . His doctor suggested that he should go for another line of hormone therapy (minimized dose of xtandi 2 40mg cpsules a day) but giving to the cercumstances of his major health a i have concerns against a second line of therapy, my father has heart desease and a border line of renal function and he is bed ridden since late 2017 and is on oxygen support when sleeping.
Is going for a second line of treatment at this age and this health condition helpful ( minimized dose) or it will do more harm than benifit? and if we decided to not go for the treatment what we should expect in the matter of pain and tumor progress and life expectancy?
Thank you
P.S he can not do any ct or bt scan due to his renal function
attached are his last blood tests
thank you
Yaqoub
my father is 100 years old and was diognised in 2004 with local prostate cancer and since then he was on lupron or zoladex injection every 3 months and casodex was added in 2016 the last 24 months his psa started climbing from 23 al the way to 84 . His doctor suggested that he should go for another line of hormone therapy (minimized dose of xtandi 2 40mg cpsules a day) but giving to the cercumstances of his major health a i have concerns against a second line of therapy, my father has heart desease and a border line of renal function and he is bed ridden since late 2017 and is on oxygen support when sleeping.
Is going for a second line of treatment at this age and this health condition helpful ( minimized dose) or it will do more harm than benifit? and if we decided to not go for the treatment what we should expect in the matter of pain and tumor progress and life expectancy?
Thank you
P.S he can not do any ct or bt scan due to his renal function
attached are his last blood tests
thank you
Yaqoub
Brief Answer:
Carcinoma prostate.
Detailed Answer:
Dear sir,
your father has shown good response to earlier hormone therapy showing now the resistance. your doctor is right to suggest another line. Since your father has other problems the second line can be given under proper supervision.
Normally in such condition I would suggest intiating treatment with alternative treatment by sprinkling crushed frozen lemon powder on eatables or the food. This is Ayurvedic method and this will potentiate the effect of the conventional drug in low doses. Rest all treatment has to be symptomatic. The other bodily conditions may be more troublesome than the cancer management.
Truly
Carcinoma prostate.
Detailed Answer:
Dear sir,
your father has shown good response to earlier hormone therapy showing now the resistance. your doctor is right to suggest another line. Since your father has other problems the second line can be given under proper supervision.
Normally in such condition I would suggest intiating treatment with alternative treatment by sprinkling crushed frozen lemon powder on eatables or the food. This is Ayurvedic method and this will potentiate the effect of the conventional drug in low doses. Rest all treatment has to be symptomatic. The other bodily conditions may be more troublesome than the cancer management.
Truly
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Yogesh D
Hello doctor
Thank you for your reply, do u suggest that father goes with one or two capsules a day instead of four (normal dose is 4 a day)?
Kindly explain more about the lemon
Thank you
Thank you for your reply, do u suggest that father goes with one or two capsules a day instead of four (normal dose is 4 a day)?
Kindly explain more about the lemon
Thank you
Brief Answer:
Prostatic carcinoma
Detailed Answer:
This is alternative therapy advocated for very sick and advanced patients. Lemon is frozen in the refrigerator and after complete drying it is crushed to powder and sprinkled on salads, beverages and food items and consumed. It potentiates the effect of conventional drugs which can be taken in lower dossages to the tolerance of the patient to prevent side effects.
Truly,
Prostatic carcinoma
Detailed Answer:
This is alternative therapy advocated for very sick and advanced patients. Lemon is frozen in the refrigerator and after complete drying it is crushed to powder and sprinkled on salads, beverages and food items and consumed. It potentiates the effect of conventional drugs which can be taken in lower dossages to the tolerance of the patient to prevent side effects.
Truly,
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Prasad
Thank you again
I was asking if 1 capsule a day of xtandi will be enough or it has to be 2 capsules? And is minimizing the dosage will lower the medicine side effects?
I was asking if 1 capsule a day of xtandi will be enough or it has to be 2 capsules? And is minimizing the dosage will lower the medicine side effects?
Brief Answer:
Prostatic Carcinoma.
Detailed Answer:
Dear Sir, It will be preferable to give two capsules under supervision to achieve the intiating effect. Once the marker gets lowered the capsule can be reduced to one and subsequently taking the advantage of the lemon effect. Normally it is not very well doccumented but experienced tradtional recipe
Truly.
Prostatic Carcinoma.
Detailed Answer:
Dear Sir, It will be preferable to give two capsules under supervision to achieve the intiating effect. Once the marker gets lowered the capsule can be reduced to one and subsequently taking the advantage of the lemon effect. Normally it is not very well doccumented but experienced tradtional recipe
Truly.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Vaishalee Punj
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