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What side effects, if any, did you have with Cyberknife?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jun 9 8:29pm | Replies (29)
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@jeffmarc

You are talking about “intra-prostatic prostate cancer with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT)”. Not the normal SBRT that a person gets with around 5 radiation treatment To the prostate.

I’ve got to admit I never do hear about people having that done. What you’re talking about here is having minimal SBRT done to the prostate to remove lesions inside of it, but leaving most of the prostate intact. I think it’d be hard pressed to find a doctor that will do this, unless it’s something brand new, they’re doing.

The normal SBRT radiation is five doses, which actually close to disintegrates the prostate. There is no prostatectomy after that.

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icorps | @icorps | Jun 9 7:20pm

Sounds like you're much more in top of this than I am. I only tripped over the scenario wondering aloud if I might've been better off taking SBRT to the prostate. Turns out while my prosratectomy pathology report was 'aces', I still had BCR in about a year. Thus far I've kept the hounds at bay with only salvage RT, followed by IMRT w 6 month dose ADT, and SBRT MDT. I've managed to avoid more ADT, having enrolled in an NCI clinical trial that has me on enzalutimide.

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