My husband had stage 3 prostate cancer.
Once prostate cancer gets to stage 4, there’s not much you can do. There’s no chemo that helps. There’s just treatments to block testosterone, do the cancer doesn’t grow as fast.
Sometimes I do wonder about stopping treatment in these cases.
Well...I have worked closely with men who had prostate cancer, and I had some who came in with prostate cancer metastases to bone, but...ten years later, they came back and we would monitor the progress. There were treatments to try to knock down the bone mets and increase comfort (Sr-89 which gets absorbed in the mets and kills them a bit) but it has been so long I don’t remember how well that worked.
Prostate cancer in a younger man (less than 60) is obviously a different ball of wax. Much more deadly.