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Anyone had salvage radiation therapy post-prostatectomy?
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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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Jeff - when they/ Dr. Scholz & others say salvage radiation only works for 1/3 of the people, what does that mean? That the patient won't get to undetectable after the treatments? the disease will return at 5 years? 10 years? something else? I have read that survival rates after salvage radiation can get as high as 80% under certain conditions (I think this is at 5 years but it could be longer) so I'm trying to understand the differences in the two data points/ opinions. Thanks for the help.