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Salvage surgery or salvage radiation?
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@prettypass2000 Yes, absolutely - NOTHING is going to detect a clump of cells. In fact, someone here on the forum once presented evidence that it has to be a few thousand or so before they will take up adequate tracer and show anything.
Also, this lymph gland dissection is not error free; who can say that more PCa cells won’t be released during retrieval and go elsewhere? Just my point of view, not disparaging your surgeon or his good intentions.
Phil
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@heavyphil I totally agreed with you. Even though he's one of the excellent surgeons, I know they can miss those microscopic cells that they can't visibly see. It happened during his first surgery that the pathologist confirmed there was tiny trace of cancer in one of the seminal vesicles that didn't show up on the scan. It creeped me out when I heard the word "another surgery."