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PC treatment: Prostatectomy or Proton Beam Therapy
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jan 22 11:40am | Replies (47)Comment receiving replies
@zmarkv
You point up a real problem and what people are being told. After radiation, the prostate only shrinks 30 to 40%. There are a number of surgeons that will remove the remaining tissue. So after radiation surgery is possible.
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@jeffmarc True. Also, I'd guess that many (most?) of the cases where PSA starts rising after radiation are caused by undetected cancer that had already escaped the prostate (just like a PSA rise after a radical prostatectomy), so removing the prostate after radiation might not be helpful anyway.