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What side effects did you experience after salvage radiation?
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@jeffmarc Do you happen to know why - scientifically - incontinence issues would occur six years later? That seems like an awfully long time. I'm wondering if it is due to the RT or due to RT and aging as a natural process. Thanks. Steve
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No idea why it occurred but Medical literature shows that it is a possibility that this could happen.
I had no incontinence after surgery, Not even when they took the catheter out. I had no incontinence after radiation. Both of those treatments can cause somebody to have incontinence later in life. It is not a guaranteed long-term issue That someone will have incontinence following surgery and radiation. A certain percentage of people will have it happen.