Many experts in the field are hoping to reduce this problem to a chronic illness.  If that can happen, expect life expectancies to increase in a major way.  There are other interesting drugs that could prolong a life span in the pipeline.  I’ll let you know when they become available.

It’s the obvious question.  One of the guys researched it extremely well and asked his doctor for a print out of people in his exact situation and read out his chance of living.  The results according to the doctor’s sheet was that he had a 49% chance of being alive after 5 years.  Not even 50%.

That is very stressful and emotional to be faced with that type of prognosis.  Well, it’s 8 years later and he’s totally fine.  He’s 66 now and he cycles far and fast every day.  He looks great.  The other guy was in a similar situation.

The point is this:  They both took remained as calm as possible and took care of themselves.  They are smart guys and knew the statistics included everyone.  They wanted to improve their odds and they did everything they could.  Don’t listen to these odds.  Read everything you can and realize that you can beat it too if you do the right things.  They did have surgery, but no chemo.  Of course, every case is slightly different, but make sure you talk it over with your doctor.  Also, make sure your doctor is a good one.  One of the guys had 2 doctors.  The first doctor totally missed the diagnosis because aggressive prostate cancer is from rapidly rising psa levels, not just total psa.  Take your life in your own hands and you can beat this thing and live to a ripe old age.

First, the statistics really aren’t accurate enough because there are so many variables. Second, if your result looks bad, it could be a negative self fulfilling prophecy. If you think you will die soon, your body will produce stress hormones that make you sicker and weaker. This is what happens to a lot of people with many cancers.

Think about how scared you got when the doctor told you the news. The cancer didn’t get worse at that moment, but your body was instantly flooded with stress hormones. This has a huge influence on your life expectancy. You can improve it with diet, exercise, surgery if necessary, attitude, and even chemo if necessary. Talk to the best doctor you can afford. Get different opinions. This is your life we’re talking about and how long it will be has a lot to do with how you handle yourself from this moment on. Forget about the calculator. It’s really not the right way to go. Others have beaten this disease, you can too.

Ok, so you caught your prostate cancer late, it’s already spread, and you are sad, scared, and wondering what to do.  Getting the statistics on survival rates or life expectancy for your metastatic prostate cancer isn’t the way to go.  Everyone’s case is different.  Attitude, diet, and a whole host of other factors go into this.

Remember when the Dr. first told you about your cancer?  How did you feel for those first 48 hours?

Nothing physically changed during that time, but this mind/body connection made you produce a bunch of chemicals that made you feel much worse.  Imagine if he told you later that he read the wrong chart and you don’t really have prostate cancer at all.  Your body would produce a bunch of healthy chemicals and you’d feel amazing.  Again, nothing would be physically different during this situation.  So much of your experience with prostate cancer, or any cancer or illness, is how you deal with it emotionally.  You can’t put those numbers into a prostate cancer calculator and come up with something.  Rating your emotional health from 1 to 10 is absurd.

How can you get your body to naturally produce those healing chemicals that give you hope instead of fear?  Doctors often get caught up in the average life expectancies.  You don’t want to be average here.  The average isn’t a pretty picture.  But the good news is you don’t have to be average.

The average person in this situation shuts down and counts down the rest of their days.  Maybe they go on a diet or two, but in all seriousness, they don’t believe they can be cured and they aren’t.  They then contribute to another statistic that makes the whole thing look more grim for people like you.

How can you be different?  Telling someone to think positive thoughts during this time is much easier said than done.  Most people don’t have conscious control over that.  It’s kind of like someone telling you to consciously stop your heart from beating for the next 15 seconds.  You understand the concept, but your body will keep that heart going anyway because you don’t know how to tell it to stop.

There is a big difference however.  With proper mental training, and other healthy living techniques, it is possible to reverse your metastatic prostate cancer.

Some people do this, doctors often get quoted as saying something like, “I’ve never seen a case like that.  It was a real medical miracle”.

What they really mean is that they don’t understand exactly what happened.  They can’t explain it so they file it into the “miracle” category and move on.

Obviously you want to be in this miracle category and it’s essential you do everything you can and research everything so that you can be a miracle and cure your prostate cancer that has already metastasized.  Don’t allow yourself to be average here.  You deserve another shot at life.