Radiotherapy for prostate cancer
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Hello. I recommend using the magnifying glass/search option to find ample previous topics posted about this. You can search terms such as radiation, radiotherapy, etc. There you’ll find a wealth of information. To help you get started, I recommend some of the posts listed here:
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@grseme I have tried reading through some of the information in the link provided by @snow.
I hope people post to this thread. As you read, will you add to this post so that future people will have an easier time.
I was able to talk with one person who chose radiation over prostatectomy. He did 10 weeks radiation 5 days a week. He did not want to do surgery. Not that he say a major benefit in doing radiation, he just did not want to do surgery. He had incontinence starting at about week 3 through week 20.
Back in August and September 2020, I googled and read a few articles about radiation. I seem to recall that you had a 28 core biopsy (the normal is 12) and that 10 of the 28 cores came back with cancer which is 35%. The articles that I read had that the 10 year outcomes were similar with the exception that many of the radiation patients developed incontinence to some degree toward the 8 to 10 year mark.
I have a friend of a friend, that he had a prostatectomy followed by radiation now followed by chemo is a few weeks.
You have already started the below thread where people gave advise. Unfortunately, it appears that like many of us, your are wanting different answers. Also it seems that people respond to the previous persons response instead of the initial request.
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I hope people post to this thread. As you read, will you add to this post so that future people will have an easier time.
I was able to talk with one person who chose radiation over prostatectomy. He did 10 weeks radiation 5 days a week. He did not want to do surgery. Not that he say a major benefit in doing radiation, he just did not want to do surgery. He had incontinence starting at about week 3 through week 20.
Back in August and September 2020, I googled and read a few articles about radiation. I seem to recall that you had a 28 core biopsy (the normal is 12) and that 10 of the 28 cores came back with cancer which is 35%. The articles that I read had that the 10 year outcomes were similar with the exception that many of the radiation patients developed incontinence to some degree toward the 8 to 10 year mark.
I have a friend of a friend, that he had a prostatectomy followed by radiation now followed by chemo is a few weeks.
You have already started the below thread where people gave advise. Unfortunately, it appears that like many of us, your are wanting different answers. Also it seems that people respond to the previous persons response instead of the initial request.
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