The 'mind map' below summarises the main points covered within this resource.
We also recommend the following online tool from The Infopool, a website for people affected by prostate cancer operated by UK charity Prostate Cancer Research.
The tool will help you to:
- Understand your possible treatment choices.
- Compare these treatments.
- Find out more about any treatment.
Click on this link to view this online tool from The Infopool.
Let's now complete this resource with a final contribution from Dilip, who explains how he ultimately came to a decision about his hormone therapy treatment.
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I think the key factor in making the decisions was the life expectancy. That with the injections and the tablets, the clinical trials on that dual treatment were that I could be looking at a life expectancy significantly more than if I didn't have this dual therapy.
If someone is looking to have hormone therapy and there are choices as to which form of hormone therapy to have, I think it's going to be very important to discuss that. Ask the questions of the medics and the nurses as to why am I, first of all, why are these various options possible? Why is it that you are recommending perhaps enzalutamide and not another drug that does something fairly similar?
Talk to your doctors, talk to the nurses. Find out about what the results of the clinical trials were and how they're specific and relevant to you. I think that's really important.