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Recently Diagnosed - Surgery or Radiation?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 28 10:32am | Replies (22)
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@graybeard46

My only comment that helped me decide surgery vs radiation is if you choose radiation without good results, if I understand correctly most cannot then have prostate removed. Unfortunately in my and many others surgery didn’t get it all and I ended up with 6 weeks of radiation after all. Sometimes being in my late 70”s I wish I threw the dice and hope that something else would cause my death before cancer , I’ll never know

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survivor5280 | @survivor5280 | Mar 25 1:31pm

I think it can cut both ways. You get surgery and need radiation ALSO or you get radiation and need surgery ALSO. I say ALSO because your provider chose the best path they believed would rid you of the disease, it's not a guarantee by any stretch of the imagination so a lot guys end up with ALSO. The benefit of RARP first is to get a definitive blueprint of your prostate, the thing that started the whole mess, and while I'd rather not have done it at all I'm glad it is out of me.

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