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Surgery or Radiation for Intermediate Prostate Cancer?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 13 10:15pm | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
Hi. Just checking in to see how you’re doing. If you haven’t already seen the surgeon, you may want to add this question to your list
“What is Plan B if plan a fails and cancer returns?”
The only non-medical advice that I’ll share is if you decide to go the surgery route and perhaps even the radiation route I would learn how to do and start doing Keagles before whatever procedure you go through. That advice was given to me by someone on this forum. I did Keagles for three weeks before my surgery. I was mostly continant a week after the catheter was removed. I continue to do keagkes each day and seldom am in a panic to find a bathroom.
Good luck on your journey. We’re here for you!
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Hello @robermizek
I had a PSMA Pet Scan at Dana Farber last week which showed no progression beyond the prostate, my doctor said these are about 85% accurate. So that is good news. Met with a surgeon today at Mass General who has been doing Robotic Surgery for prostatectomy procedures for about ten years. I am most concerned about being continant after the procedure. He said it takes time, one to two months to get back to a more normal daily urinary process. He said Keagle exercises and good core strength are key to bladder control. I also met with a Dana Farber doctor about radiation last week. They use the Ethos machine which seems to be state of the art. It uses precise MRI positioning, and they update the MRI information at every treatment date. Treatment will be 20 sessions over four weeks, along with 3 months of ADT. Still unsure of what road to take to a cure.