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Anyone had salvage radiation therapy post-prostatectomy?
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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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Sorry to hear about your reoccurrence. My surgery was 3 years ago and my blood work today showed a PSA of .24....
I guess I'll be given salvage radiation next. I don't know.
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I guess that is the question. If your PSA was starting to go up, and doing SR dropped it, then wasn’t that the area the problem was in.
For me, it worked for 2 1/2 years. PSA went from .2 to undetectable. As slow as it grows, that could be the amount of time that it takes to grow in a different area, something that had been too small to be seen 2 1/2 years ago.
That leaves out completely how you could go 16 years, that’s a result of Dormancy. Cancer cells can go dormant and not reappear for years or decades. Isn’t that great to know?!!! Arghhh.