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Recurrence in pelvic lymph node

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: 5 days ago | Replies (17)
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My meeting this week with my radiation oncologist resulted in a decision to begin 25 SBRT treatments to my full pelvis rather than 3 treatments to a recurrence in a single lymph node. A recent clinical trial with two control groups showed a statistically significant result with the full pelvic radiation showing no distant metastases. So I will begin 5 weeks of radiation on June 10.

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heavyphil | @heavyphil | May 31 7:31am

Hey pal, personally believe you are making the right decision - where there’s smoke there’s fire.
But didn’t you already have 36 IMRT sessions of SRT the first go round? They probably only did the prostate bed.
So how can you have even more radiation after such a short interval? And many sessions of SBRT? That’s usually high dose (cyberknife, etc). Reserved for spot radiation….I’m just a bit confused. Thanks,
Phil

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