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SBRT treatment: Any tips about food, drink, supplements?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 8 10:26am | Replies (17)
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@jeffmarc

How old are you? Have you seen the discussions in this forum about how SBRT can cause many issues after 12 or 13 years. If you’re in your 70s, it’s not as big a deal as if you’re in your 50s or 60s where decades of problems can occur.

Are you getting an MRI using one of the newer machines like the MRIdian SBRT, which has a much narrower beam so that tissues near the spot being radiated aren’t damaged.

You should also get one of the SpaceOAR (or equivalent) inserts to reduce the amount of radiation to your rectum.

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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | Apr 6 1:47pm

I was in my mid 50s, but my cancer was already at stage 4, so I wasn't going to live 12–15 more years to have those problems you mentioned if I didn't get the SBRT (both to my spine and prostate). I also wouldn't have benefited from super precise radiation, because since the cancer had spread to my spine, there was a good chance of undetected local spread around the prostate, and better to have a shot at catching that as well.

I hope to live long enough to see new, milder treatments developed for stage 4, so that I can grumble and bore people about how tough we had it in the old days. 🙂

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