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Long-Term Adverse Effects and Complications After Treatment
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: 2 hours ago | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
Very misleading and discouraging study IMHO. They used men with Gleason 6’s AND men who did NOT have prostate cancer as a comparison?? WTF? That’s like comparing the complications associated with amputation of a gangrenous limb with those who had NO INFECTION!!
Of course men who have had treatment will have higher rates of complications - how can they NOT??
I am now in salvage radiation knowing full well that the radiation could cause my previously treated bladder cancer to return even more aggressively. Does that mean I do nothing for the prostate cancer?
Until you get a crystal ball along with your medical degree there is no way to know if your treatment decisions are right or wrong, good or bad or more harmful than not.
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I am really puzzled by your comments. The study I posted compared people who had radiation with people who had surgery. Maybe the second study discussed people without active cancer, that wasn’t what the first post discussed.
It came up with conclusions about side effects for those two different types of treatments after 12 years.
People who didn’t have a seven or above, weren’t really involved in that survey, which discussed just results of treatment. The results section doesn’t even mention people that don’t have prostate cancer or people that weren’t treated.