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@frank1956 How old are you Frank? 70ish is really the grey area if your handle ‘1956’ refers to that.
PCa is tricky and sometimes even with all the boxes checked off , it can come back. The forum is full of us in our second, third and even fourth go rounds.
Radiation may be an excellent choice for your condition, but - and this is purely speculative on my part!- if your cancer returns and you are still hale and hearty in your late 70’s or early 80’s, you WILL need a backup plan.
Sometimes, even though it sounds distasteful, surgery is an excellent treatment as well (possibly curative, as is radiation) but offers the dividend of being able to do radiation down the road if necessary. To do the reverse - radiation first and surgery second - is not frequently successful.
Just food for thought as you navigate your way through these confusing stats, outcomes and recommendations.
Best
Phil

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Thank you for your thoughts. I was indeed born in 1956. I will be 70 in 3 weeks.
I was diagnosed with Stage 1a lung cancer early this year. After a surgery to remove one lobe, I am now in remission. I have to do a chest CT every 6 months and no other treatment. The one right before my prostate diagnosis was all clear but lung cancer has a lot higher recurrence rate than prostate cancer.
Going thru another surgery is not something I would want to do. I just want to tame my prostate cancer before I had to deal with lung cancer in 2-5 years. I may indeed die from something else than prostate cancer, as they say.