Some doctors swear by this. Dr. Mark Scholz One of the leaders of PCRI said at The meeting in March that he was doing exactly that and it was working very successfully. In fact, he preferred doing that to salvage radiation, Waiting for the metastasis to show up and then zapping them.

There’s a lot of controversy about this. In my case, I had salvage radiation 3 1/2 years after surgery and it kept me undetectable for another 2 1/2 years. If they had let metastasis grow, I would be in big trouble since I had BRCA2 Which prevents your body from correcting genetic errors. I would probably end up with many mets.

Another doctor in Houston, who was highly respected, feels that some people need to have adjunct radiation before the PSA starts rising if they have certain combinations of problems.

I know people that have had vacations from the cancer drugs and ended up with multiple metastasis that had to be zapped and in some cases too many and they required chemo.

For many years, my husband has had spot radiation at Mayo Rochester on his spinal metastases as they appear. He has worked with Dr Kwon since 2011 and also with several of the Mayo radiation oncologists over the years, and they all seem to agree on zapping them as they appear, which they call the whack-a- mole treatment protocol. 🙂