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Hmish, you did the right thing, confusing as it seems. If you had an SBRT type of treatment (5sessions) because you “thought” it was confined to the gland, and now you know it isn’t, what would you have done?
Radiation would not be an option since you’d have already had it!
Similarly for EBRT, they might not have not targeted your pelvic nodes since PSMA was clear. So the surgery (horrible as it is) revealed undiagnosed cancer OUTSIDE the gland and now it CAN be treated with radiation and ADT.
From my standpoint, with your Gleason score, you had the BEST primary treatment and now the mop-up will hopefully take care of the rest.
I would think that your oncologist would keep you on ADT for longer than 6 mos but that’s just a layman’s opinion.
All this means is that treatment is going to take longer than you anticipated but I think you’re on the right path to an excellent result.
Phil