{"id":18170,"date":"2024-08-30T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/prompt-treatment\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T14:06:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:06:23","slug":"prompt-treatment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/news\/prompt-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tratamento imediato \u00e9 fundamental para um sobrevivente de cancro da pr\u00f3stata"},"content":{"rendered":"

Herb, 82 anos, vive em Little Compton, RI, com a sua mulher, a Dra. Bente Hoegsberg, que se reformou recentemente da sua cl\u00ednica de obstetr\u00edcia de alto risco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durante uma consulta de dezembro de 2021 com o seu m\u00e9dico de fam\u00edlia, Herbert foi submetido a um teste de PSA de rotina, utilizado para rastrear o cancro da pr\u00f3stata nos homens atrav\u00e9s da medi\u00e7\u00e3o do n\u00edvel de PSA no sangue. N\u00e3o apresentava sintomas nem desconforto, mas o teste revelou que o n\u00edvel de PSA de Herbert tinha aumentado ligeiramente.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais tarde, quando Herb come\u00e7ou a sentir algum desconforto p\u00e9lvico, foi realizada uma ecografia que revelou um incha\u00e7o nas ves\u00edculas seminais. Foi tratado durante algum tempo com antibi\u00f3ticos, mas em mar\u00e7o de 2023, uma resson\u00e2ncia magn\u00e9tica revelou uma massa na pr\u00f3stata que se estendia at\u00e9 \u00e0s ves\u00edculas seminais. Uma biopsia da pr\u00f3stata confirmou o diagn\u00f3stico de cancro da pr\u00f3stata<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foi enviado para o Southcoast Health Cancer Center em Fairhaven<\/a> para uma cintilografia \u00f3ssea de medicina nuclear e uma PET PSMA, em que \u00e9 injetado um corante radioativo para ajudar os m\u00e9dicos a diagnosticar melhor a extens\u00e3o do cancro. O exame revelou doen\u00e7a na pr\u00f3stata, bem como nos g\u00e2nglios linf\u00e1ticos perto da aorta, da virilha e do ombro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herb encontrou-se com Dr. Tushar Kumar<\/a>O Dr. Kumar, um oncologista de radia\u00e7\u00f5es, colaborou e coordenou prontamente com a sua equipa de tratamento. O Dr. Kumar fez com que Herb e a sua mulher se sentissem imediatamente confiantes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ele foi \"minucioso e informativo\", disse Bente. \"\u00c9 totalmente franco: diz-nos o que se sabe e o que n\u00e3o se sabe, onde encontrar a informa\u00e7\u00e3o e o que esperar com ou sem tratamento. As suas recomenda\u00e7\u00f5es baseiam-se em todo o quadro, incluindo a investiga\u00e7\u00e3o mais recente. O Dr. Kumar \u00e9 uma pessoa bondosa e compassiva\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Os tratamentos de Herb no Southcoast Health Cancer Center foram supervisionados pelo oncologista m\u00e9dico Dr. Edress Othman<\/a>O m\u00e9dico de cl\u00ednica geral, Dr. Herbert, disse-lhe que a terapia anti-hormonal seria a melhor abordagem. O tratamento anti-hormonal consiste em injec\u00e7\u00f5es mensais de degarelix, que suprime a testosterona, uma hormona sexual masculina natural. O bloqueio da testosterona com degarelix reduz a propaga\u00e7\u00e3o do cancro da pr\u00f3stata. Al\u00e9m disso, toma um comprimido di\u00e1rio de acetato de abiraterona, que \u00e9 prescrito para homens cujo cancro da pr\u00f3stata se espalhou para outras partes do corpo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cinco meses mais tarde, o Dr. Kumar recomendou o tratamento por radioterapia, uma vez que um novo estudo de grande dimens\u00e3o realizado na Gr\u00e3-Bretanha revelou taxas de sobreviv\u00eancia mais elevadas em doentes com cancro da pr\u00f3stata em estado avan\u00e7ado. O Dr. Kumar iniciou de imediato o tratamento de radia\u00e7\u00e3o para tratar os tumores, incluindo os que se encontravam perto da aorta de Herb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uma tomografia por emiss\u00e3o de positr\u00f5es (PET) de mar\u00e7o de 2024 mostrou que, embora o cancro tivesse atingido os g\u00e2nglios linf\u00e1ticos, todos os tumores tinham diminu\u00eddo, indicando que Herb estava a responder muito bem aos tratamentos prescritos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sinto-me \u00f3timo\", diz Herb. \"Fazem-me an\u00e1lises ao sangue todos os meses quando vou \u00e0s consultas.\" O seu n\u00edvel de PSA, que chegou a atingir 64 ng\/mL, \"est\u00e1 apenas um pouco acima de zero\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"O Dr. Othman tem sido fabuloso. Apesar de estar muito ocupado, ele senta-se e conversa consigo. Sentimo-nos confort\u00e1veis\", diz Herb. \"Ele d\u00e1-nos esperan\u00e7a\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bente tamb\u00e9m atribui o m\u00e9rito a Sara Christian, RN, Nurse Navigator no Southcoast Health Cancer Center, que ajuda os doentes e as fam\u00edlias nos muitos desafios que enfrentam. \"Quando h\u00e1 problemas, ela resolve-os. Ter uma pessoa a quem recorrer tem sido realmente fant\u00e1stico\", afirmou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herb disse que se sente bem, apesar dos afrontamentos ocasionais que acompanham os medicamentos de terapia hormonal que toma. \"Sou um jovem de 82 anos\", disse ele. \"Ainda corto a minha pr\u00f3pria relva.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ele e a sua mulher est\u00e3o ansiosos por visitar o filho e os netos na Noruega. Tamb\u00e9m est\u00e3o ansiosos por uma escapadela de inverno a um apartamento que t\u00eam em Espanha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Adoro a vida\", diz. E apesar do diagn\u00f3stico de cancro, \"nada mudou realmente. A minha mulher e eu estamos a desfrutar deste tempo\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herb est\u00e1 grato a todos os prestadores de cuidados do Southcoast Health Cancer Center em Fairhaven e do Departamento de Radia\u00e7\u00e3o do Charlton Memorial Hospital. \"N\u00e3o h\u00e1 melhor tratamento em lado nenhum\", afirmou. \"N\u00e3o posso dizer o suficiente sobre as pessoas que l\u00e1 trabalham.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Para mais informa\u00e7\u00f5es sobre os servi\u00e7os de cuidados oncol\u00f3gicos (oncologia) da Southcoast Health, visite<\/em> Cuidados Oncol\u00f3gicos para o Cancro no Sudeste de MA | Southcoast Health<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4706,"template":"","categories":[1231],"class_list":["post-18170","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPrompt Treatment Key for Prostate Cancer Survivor - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Herb, an 82 Little Compton, RI resident, received prompt treatment at the Southcoast Health Cancer Center in Fairhaven for prostate cancer treatment.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/prompt-treatment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_PT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prompt Treatment Key for Prostate Cancer Survivor - 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