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prostatectomy vs radiation?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 17 7:48pm | Replies (52)

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I won't actually know until my next post-surgical follow-up appointment, 7/31. I've actually pondered - without any action taken - as to why my doctor didn't move up my follow-up appointment to the week following my last appointment on April 28th? Maybe again, because prostate cancer grows so slowly, that my doctor knows that seeing him 3-months after my last appointment won't make a difference. Are there any doctors out there reading this, who want to weigh-in here? If you have a post-surgical radical prostatectomy patient who was revealed to be a pT3b level patient based on the pathology report, would you do as my doctor did, saying: "We'll need to talk about radiation during your next appointment" and wait those three months? Or...would you walk me up to the front receptionist, and say: "Schedule this patient sometime next week...make it work, fit him in." ??? What would you do?

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I am sorry I can not be of much help since I am not a doctor but I just want to say that I read couple of time here on this forum that a body needs first to heal from surgery so that it can endure radiation treatments which many times are no walk in the park either. However I completely get your frustration - my husband had to wait for every singe test and every single consultations for weeks and weeks. He was diagnosed with cancer in February and will have surgery next month ...