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Newly diagnosed with prostate cancer: What might I be in for?
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@bens1
Great information to @mspotter1956. The margins are important as you mentioned. Where did you have your radiation done?
My R/O and urologist kept telling me that prostate cancer does not always show up on MRIs and biopsies and can be at celluar level and go undetected by MRIs and biopsies.
I am not sure what my margins were. My R/O at UFHPTI was quite adamant he was going to treat margins and the entire prostrate. I had 30 rounds of proton pencil beam radiation.
He did another test (beyond MRIs with contrast, Fusion/Biopsies, Decipher, bone scan, PSMA). He injected something into my prostrate via penis saying would allow a better look at lower, and back part of prostrate. This was done during the transition part of setting up treatment.
I think your real-time MRI imaging radiation treatments is state of art at this time. I know I had markers put in and they always did a low dose xray (twice each treatment) to make sure prostrate was aligned perfectly.
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@jc76
I had my treatment done at the Orlando Cancer center. They have the Proton machine and the Mridian. The Mridian machine is in their Ocoee location and the Proton machine is in their downtown Orlando location. Dr. Kaitlin Christophersen did my treatment and she was trained at MD Andersen.
I have a friend that has recently been caught in no mans land who had a MRI and a biopsy that showed nothing with a PSA of 15+. Thats why this new PSE test, which I am going to try in a couple of weeks for potential biological re-occurrence (even though my PSA is where it should be...at its nadir), is so important, if it really works. 93-97% accuracy for detecting prostate cancer.