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44yr PSA180 Gleason9 non-metastatic. Surgery or Treatment?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 27 11:03am | Replies (112)Comment receiving replies
If you have five or fewer mets then you can get SBRT radiation To treat them. But you also want to treat the prostate. Frequently that means SBRT radiation to both areas. Some doctors will do both, Others want to do IMRT to the prostate and then SBRT to the mets.
It varies a lot, what a doctor will want to do. Some might even want to do chemo, Which is what is done frequently if you have more than five mets.
The other things found in the biopsy can be a factor in what is decided would be best to do.
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Thanks Jeff! My prostate is probably sitting in a freezer somewhere at the hospital, but I am interested in what they might do for me if I should develop a few bone mets at some point in the future. I see my RO every Wednesday while on radiation therapy so I’ll probably ask him next week. Thanks!