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Anyone had proton therapy after prostatectomy?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: May 30 3:49pm | Replies (11)

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@brian5837

Phil, first of all, I'm so glad you found a treatment option that worked for you. To answer your question, there was one gentleman getting proton 6 months after RP; the others were all getting proton salvage several years out from RP, including one gentleman who had been cancer free for a decade. As with everything related to PcA, treatment recommendations are all patient-specific, Center-specific, and individual provider-specific. In charting our own path, I just don't think one should arbitrarily rule out a specific plan of treatment without first having done the difficult work of consulting with the providers in whom we have the most trust and after considerable due diligence.

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Yeah, most of the recommendations for treatment are very user biased - or center biased if they have a multimillion dollar machine that needs to be paid for, right?
Can’t wrap my head around how proton therapy would work in a late salvage case, but I’m not a physicist and when they get down in the weeds and start throwing around Greek letters, it’s pretty much past my level of comprehension😖😩