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Anyone had salvage radiation therapy post-prostatectomy?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 31 1:55pm | Replies (35)
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@mmmvegas

Thanks again for sharing your experience. It would be an easy decision for me to pursue radiation therapy immediately except that my wife and I have custody of and are raising our 10-year-old granddaughter. My wife is suffering from chronic autoimmune issues so I need to be at full strength to take care of both of these ladies. I worry that side-effects of radiation might make it difficult to give them the support they need.

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jeffMar | @jeffmarc | Mar 31 1:55pm

I had seven weeks of Salvage radiation When it didn’t affect me at all. I know some people had a little fatigue, but I just went to work and never noticed anything.

Radiation isn’t normally like chemo where you can be sick for a couple of days.

You could follow Dr. Scholz’s advice to just get an SBRT pet scan and zap metastasis. Consider that salvage radiation really only works for 1/3 of people.

Another thing to consider “When PSA rises but can’t find it in the PSMA Pet scan do an MRI, it will be found in Retroperitoneum or lung with high frequency”

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