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Stew - I wouldn’t even worry about having surgery - you are too old!🤣
No, seriously….radiation is probably indicated for any man in your age group in lieu of surgery. Cyberknife type treatment (5visits) is an exceptionally precise and successful mode of treatment. Many of the adverse side effects have been mitigated with newer techniques and radiation systems too numerous to list.
Even a high Gleason score - although you might need hormones if a Decipher test indicates it - can be treated with Cyberknife.
You really DO want to avoid surgery if possible, which is why you need to find a hospital that treats many patients with prostate cancer and not settle on what the local docs want to do
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I responded *very* badly to spinal surgery in 2021, even though I was still a young man (56). I ended up with 2 months of post-surgical complications before I could move from a critical-care bed to the rehab centre to start on the very long road of learning to walk again. So like @heavyphil I'll cast my personal vote for "radiation". After that experience, nobody's putting me under and cutting me again unless there's no reasonable alternative.
But others here have had awful experiences with radiation, even though most have had few or no complications from it. So there's no single, correct choice. As I and others keep repeating, the overall-survival statistics are the same for radiation or prostatectomy, so the OP should have a conversation with his oncologist, and a longer one with his own body, then pick the one that suits.