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video from PCRI suggests long-term beam radiation BCR rates are 50%
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@surftohealth88 Was your RO talking about salvage or if you had done radiation instead of RARP? The recurrence risk after radiation as primary treatment comes from teo distinct sources: i) Viable cancer cells left inside the prostate, ii) cancer cells already outside the prostate. After RARP point i) is moot and from what I have read, salvage radiation has a very high cure rate if cancer is still localized to the prostate bed.
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He was talking in general terms since RP and RT have similar recurrence rates. I mean, I knew that , that is why we chose RP so we have "ace in a sleeve" - RT for salvage if needed and our choice proved to be good ( thanks all angels in heaven) because my husband might need salvage/ adjuvant soon. It all depends of the first PSA and of his choice of a treatment. Also, I always wonder how accurate are those studies about RT since obviously correct gleason grade is missed during biopsy in pretty good %.
BUT - alllll of those statistics are just that - statistics . How will each individual PC behave and what will be a result is really Russian Roulette - it depends of soooo many factors that it is not even funny. One can do everything by a book (statistics) and have bad result, while the other who had very little chance to begin with at the end lives a decade and more. They are just guidelines, something to consider and take into account. All the rest is "to be seen" .
I say this half jokingly - it seems that it is all written in ones natal chart ...