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You were so thorough on your comments. Good job on educating all of us. My husband, Jim, is set up for the pacer surgery on 3-14-24. He will do a CT and MRI scans on 3-15-24. I'm presuming that Proton Beam therapy will begin the following week. After reading everything on hormone therapy, he has decided not to have it. They are recommending 18 months of Eligard. He thinks that the potential side effects of possible stroke and heart attacks for all the hormone medications is not worth the risk. He hasn't informed the radiologist yet. Has anyone done the proton Beam therapy without hormones? He was originally going to have a RP but the surgeon said that his prostate is on the large side and he couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't have major urine challenges. The surgeon is the person that recommended radiation. He is 73 and in very good health otherwise.