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Stage 3a, Group 9, just discovered. Dr. gave options but have question

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 30 10:08am | Replies (42)
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@groundhogy

I don’t believe salvage radiation is as curative as primary.
Also didn’t the OP say he was very high gleason? That combined with some detected spread would be reason to not go RP.
You should READ all about RP and micro-mets and margins.

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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | Aug 12 7:24am

When I share information here, I usually add that I'm a layperson (in case it's not obvious), and sometimes also that YMMV (your mileage may vary).

Since cancer has become such a big deal in our lives and we're reading about it a lot, we're all at risk of the Dunning-Kruger effect: people who know only a little about a field talk with much more confidence than the qualified experts (you'll see that all the time on YouTube and cable news, for example). Amateurs talk about "facts"; experts talk about possibilities, probabilities, and uncertainty, which is more honest, but not nearly as comforting. 🙁

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