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Anyone had salvage radiation therapy post-prostatectomy?
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Jeff - when they/ Dr. Scholz & others say salvage radiation only works for 1/3 of the people, what does that mean? That the patient won't get to undetectable after the treatments? the disease will return at 5 years? 10 years? something else? I have read that survival rates after salvage radiation can get as high as 80% under certain conditions (I think this is at 5 years but it could be longer) so I'm trying to understand the differences in the two data points/ opinions. Thanks for the help.
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Radiation to prostate bed after surgery for removal. Worked for 16 years. Having a recent climb with bone metastasis. Now on Xgeva and Xtandi.
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The PCRI conference had doctors discussing what to do with reoccurrence. While salvage radiation has been the standard for quite a long time, the doctors there said that only 1/3 of the cases of reoccurrence were result of metastasis in the area where salvage radiation was done.
So they claim it totally misses the spots where the cancer normally comes back.