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My Radiation treatment journey

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 10 4:25pm | Replies (14)

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@solesky

Thanks for the support James and congrats on your great results, I can only hope for numbers like you. All of my Dr's told me to go on the trip and they'll schedule radiation around it, had my spacerOAR put in the Friday I came back from Portugal and the radiation started 2 weeks after that, I've had 10 so far, they told me I would need 28. My Dr. told me they would wait about 3-4 months after radiation is finished before they know anything concrete. Continued good health to you.

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Solesky . Sounds like your doing the right things here ! The treatments have given you any side effect? ... I fought them off and went walking everyday after treatments of External Beam radiation ( EBRT) of 22 session - No ADT . . I would drive down to Victoria for the week , get zapped once a day , then stay in the Victoria Cancer Lodge . Wonderful food and a very nice room. Free of charge Nurses would check in on me and a great chef who knew how to cook really healthy meals . I only ate Breakfast and dinner , but they had lunch and snacks too ! Man!! many Prostate guys there ...but all sorts of cancers . My treatments were usually at 11 am , then I would walk for 2-3 hours . Tired , but I did it . Loose bowel and a jumpy bladder during treatments , but fine now . ED was an issue after operation and radiation but 80% back to normal now ! after operation I slowly climbed back to 0.14 , that was after 1 year . So radiation , then waited about 10 months , then it started to work ... now at 0.041 . Not quite "off the scale " , but getting close. My father died of prostate cancer 28 years ago now , I was his care giver ....So I have a lot of anxiety around PC myself . I guess thats normal ? God bless Sir ! Keep us in the loop ! James on Vancouver Island.