People who have gone through Taxotere treatments: need advice

Hi Tommy,

Sorry to hear about your dad. Taxotere used to be started after men would fail on their ADT treatments but then a new study showed that not waiting and starting it with the ADT therapy actually increased survival benefit to the men by a huge margin. Most treatments seem only to extend life on average by 2-4 months where this was shown to give an extension over 17 months.

I am late for work but I am certain that someone will post a link soon to the study and help explain this better. There are some on here already and there is a webinar here too that Tony did which was very informative.

Basically starting it now, in the beginning, instead of waiting has been shown to have huge benefit in lifespan.

My husband just had his first round 2 weeks ago and actually has felt better since than he has in a very long time. I applaud your dad's doctor for offering this as Paul's doctor had not heard of it but did agree immediately after reading the research. He began 2 weeks after starting ADT.

Here I did a search and this is a presentation Tony did about the study- called the CHAARTED study

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMCmKAhgvJw

Here is a link to a thread here where they did a great webinar http://advancedpcatalk.freeforums.net/thread/123/chaarted-presentation-pcaf-june-00pm

https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=35&m=3100787

Paul only got a mild case of thrush from first chemo treatment- next one is Junly 21. He was in a LOT of pain before but since then the steroids he is also taking have helped hugely with the side effects and pain. He had no nausea at all and says he is feeling physically better than he has in a very long time.

His palliative care team also kept him on the steroids for the time being as once he went off, the pain was right back. He is resisting other pain med options due to stigma attached to some but hopefully they can find something that works as well and he agrees to. I guess I should note that he is 6 foot 7 inches and narcotics just gakk him out with no pain relief. The care team said there are actually several different types of genetic abnormalities in the opiate pain receptors that people can have but there are some meds that can work.