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Gleason7(3+4) - treatment options recommendation
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The study is pretty clear. It doesn’t matter which treatment you had results are about the same. This was started 15 years ago and they are many new techniques and even new treatments besides surgery.
It would be interesting to see what the results are now, because the new techniques may have more successful results. In the past radiation and surgery, at times, both left some cancer cells untreated, leading to future spread. The new radiation techniques have probably reduced the amount of untreated cells. The Mridian radiation is a big advancement.
The study started before use of SBRT and Cyberknife SBRT. Apparently IMRT was the radiation treatment. Again, I wonder what the results would be with the latest technology.
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True, what the statistics now show is at least with radiation the outcomes are equal. That does not mean side affects and secondary issues it means whether the prostratce cancer was successfully treated.
I know Mayo Jacksonville does not have proton radiation for any of their cancer treatments. They are building a new cancer center that will have it. However they use the new SBRT photon radiation which is vastly been improved from intially photon radiation.
My only concern and is just my opinion not medical knowledge is that if entire prostrate is not treated you might miss small areas, or just even cancer cells that are not deteted and the direct treatments to just specific parts of prostrate might permit some cancer cells to go untreated and of course means they could start growing more and more.