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Anyone had salvage radiation therapy post-prostatectomy?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 24 4:30pm | Replies (67)
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Jeff - what kind of radiation did you have (IMRT ?), or something else. Did they zap your lymph nodes also ? Did they use gold markers inside the body ?

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jeff Marchi | @jeffmarc | Sep 22 9:34pm

I had 7 1/2 weeks of IMRT radiation. It was to the prostate bed so I am sure they did zap some lymph nodes during the process. They put tattoos on my stomach to be able to line me up for each treatment.

That was 12 years ago and I really didn’t understand enough to ask specifically what they were zapping. It is pretty standard to get the lymph nodes in that area since they are susceptible to reoccurrence.

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