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Anyone had salvage radiation therapy post-prostatectomy?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 24 4:30pm | Replies (67)Comment receiving replies
I had salvage radiation of the prostate bed after a prostatectomy to treat the tissue which may had had cancer. Multiple testing for 10 years confirms it was a smart thing to do.
In reading several comments in this threat, I have a question fir each of you. If, this targeted beam radiation helps 1/3, or 2/3 or whatever/3 of the patients , I consider those as pretty good odds of helping. Why wouldn't a patient want this procedure? There's a 100% chance it won't help at all if this procedure it not performed.
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The reason that somebody would want to avoid this treatment is that radiation does damage to organs that are not the target. Urinary and bowel problems happen after doing radiation for many people. Five years after salvage radiation, I started having incontinence problems. A know an issue with radiation.
Some doctors, swear by the fact that you can just zap the metastasis as they come up and you don’t need salvage radiation.
This may be true for some people, Problem is it’s hard to know who it’s true for.