I no longer worry too much about recurrence. I've been in this battle for 5 years now, and I got tired of the roller coaster from my doctors ("Wow, it looks like we got it in time"... "Oops, from your rising PSA it looks like it's back"... etc.)

I do still have a reasonable chance of a cure (HDR brachy at Mayo), but I'm more or less resigned to some kind of dance between recurrence and remission. I'm 65, and right now my life is pretty good. All I need to do is to squeeze out 5 more good years, and then maybe 3 or 4 after that, and 2 or 3 after that, and before you know it I'm an old fart who dies from something else.