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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 17 11:28am | Replies (55)
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If you have Proton therapy first, and later in life you experience recurrence, what kind of treatments will be still available to you? Can you still do surgery, or go back to do Proton therapy again?
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The RT at CA Protons said that you can do proton therapy again. RT at City of Hope said you can do photon therapy again.
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I had 30 rounds of proton radiation at UFPTI. I was told by May Clinic Jacksonville at a Prostrate Seminar that most urologists do not want to do surgeries after radiation treatments. If makes doing the surgery very difficult.
The commentator did say it can be done but only a few will do it.
Hope this helps and this came from Mayo Jacksonville Prostrate Seminar and not my personal
opinion. When and if you have recurrence your urologist, radiologist/oncologist would be best to asked about what treatments for you. I believe it would be based again of degree of cancer (risk levels) and where and how much it has spread outside of prostrate or still in the prostrate only.
Just know that there are still many treatments that can be done outside of sugery.