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Difficulty In Deciding on IMRT or Proton Therapy
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 22 8:48pm | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
Hey jc76,
Thank you very much for explaining your proton therapy success story and where to go! I am definitely going to ask my doc about the decipher test! Were you put on hormone therapy, and if so what meds?....
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@jseabass
Your welcome. That is why MCC is here to share our experience.
Regarding the Decipher. Most of the time they use the same biospies to do the Decipher. The Decipher will come back with specific determination if your cancer is low risk, intermediate or high risk. Some poster have had numbers given to them but my R/O (Mayo) use the low, intermediate, high. Mine came back low risk.
I mentioned it again because you asked about hormone therapy. I did not have it. When I got my orignal diagnosis at Mayo Jacksonville the R/O said recommendation was radiation treatment with 20 rounds of photon (SBRT) AND hormone treatment.
My Mayo R/O recommended doing a Decipher test. I did not know about what that was (I had not been a member of MCC back then) but said yes anything that helps with diagnosis. I had it done and it came back low risk. My diagnosis was changed from intermediate risk to low risk. Mayo R/O then changed his treatment recommendations to radiation only no hormone.
I did not find out about MCC until after I started my radiation treatments at UFHPTI. I was invited to a prostate seminar at Mayo Jacksonville and MCC came up during discussion.