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Good News on PET-Scan, time to consider next steps
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@brianjarvis
Salvage radiation radiates the prostate bed where it’s most likely that something is growing as a result of the prostate being removed, and as Drs Kwon and Moyad have said at PCRI “Seeds for metastasis were already there when surgery was done, waiting to grow.”
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@jeffmarc Yes, those “metasti-seeds” (as Kwon sometimes refers to them) can be anywhere in the body.
But, Kwon cautions in that presentation that “…only 1/3 of men who have recurrence following prostatectomy have recurrence only in the prostate bed, and that they should not get salvage radiation there unless they’re absolutely certain of the location of recurrence.” He says to “first confirm where the recurrence is.”