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I haven't decided yet. I really would like to put off the salvage radiation therapy as long as possible as I don't want to deal with side effects. I have an appointment with my urologist tomorrow and will also seek a second opinion. My concern is that the local urologist has their own radiation oncology center, and they may be wanting to treat me to increase their revenue.

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@mmmvegas There are different types of radiation machines that have more or less side effects. The Mridian and the Elekta Unity have a built in MRI (vs fused images) so what they see in real time is treated in real time. The side effects are MUCH less as determined by both my personal experience of 5 hypo fractional treatments and the mirage randomized trial.
https://www.urologytimes.com/view/mirage-trial-margin-reduction-with-mri-guided-sbrt-reduces-toxicity-vs-ct-guided-sbrt