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Brachytherapy? Anyone have thoughts?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 13 1:03pm | Replies (24)

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@robertmizek

I’m glad that you had good success with LDR brachytherapy. I formerly was a member of a local prostate cancer support group and I know a number of other men like yourself had low-dose brachytherapy in combination with external beam radiation and ADT. I also know other men who had Brachytherapy as solo primary treatment for low risk prostate cancer, and sadly a third of them, including myself had recurrences of higher risk disease that were difficult to treat because the “radiation card” had already been played.

Best wishes to stay cancer free!

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I'm sorry to hear that. I'm not recommending Brachy as a solo treatment. In conjunction with Lupron and external beam it is the most effective treatment there is and gives an overall survival statistic that is far and away better than all the other regimen.

Robert, was there a study published in conjunction with the "Brachytherapy only treatment"? I have a friend who is in the same boat as we are and is considering going without ADT.

Was your solo treatment ( Monotherapy ) HDR or LDR ?