Connect
← Return to Long-Term Adverse Effects and Complications After Treatment
Discussion
Long-Term Adverse Effects and Complications After Treatment
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: 3 hours ago | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
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.
Replies to "I am really puzzled by your comments. The study I posted compared people who had radiation..."
Connect
Somehow I was able to access the Full Text this AM. Can’t do it now. But they included not only patients with Gleason 6’s, but also patients who did NOT have PCa of any kind.
So my point was: of course there will be complications in those men TREATED. How could there not be? No treatment for anything is always the best treatment.
And there are differences in those complications depending on the treatment chosen. Maybe the surgery vs radiation is apples to apples, but the comparison of overall complications in both groups in toto cannot be compared to men either untreated or without cancer.
Perhaps I’m splitting hairs or maybe I EXPECT complications, no matter how successful the treatment.