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Can you send some of your husband's optimism my way. Lol. You're right. With IDC and Cribriform it was an excellent choice to go with surgery. With his GG they may suggest radiation to bed and pelvic lymph nodes after he heals from surgery. You have a few months to think about that. From my understanding back in the early days of RALP this was standard treatment. However, as time progressed they realized radiation wasn't needed in all cases after surgery. They could actively monitor PSA and if started to creep up apply SRT then to bed and more recently pelvic lymph nodes. If the doctors recommend radiation for your husband and you don't want it, you could ask for PSA tests each month instead of the standard one every 3 months. My friend did this as he had a GG8. If his PSA hits .1 then you can begin SRT.
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Thanks PerryChristopher for comforting words 💗 !
Yes, I also wonder where I can tap off the optimism lol, but in over 40 years I did not manage to find a valve 😆 ! He has a magic capability of just "blocking" background buzzing and concentrate on only positive things. If there is 20 % of chance for cure, he would concentrate on that number and that is how he functions in general. That is wonderful way to keep sanity BUT than one tends not to see negative thing lurking and not taking necessary preventative steps. He himself recently said that he would be a "goner" long time ago if he did not have me. So yeah - we somehow live as one symbiotic organism 😋, and I wish that one day we just pooffff together out of this ridiculous world.
Thanks so much for giving me info about possible protocols in this situation and how they changed over time 👍. Yes - we have some time to think about this new scary situation and to plow through studies and such 🤓 and thanks for idea about doing PSA more often !
Wishing you all the best and may your PSA go down to 0.01 and stay forever there in spite of everything 🍀 👍😊