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@heavyphil Yes, when no radiation has yet been used, waiting to radiate recurrent cancer only when first visible on PET scans will certainly allow cancer to spread more easily and greatly decrease the chance of a cure (NED after 5 years). I doubt that we will see other oncologists agreeing with Dr. Kwon's approach on this.

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The other problem with this approach is that micro metastasis can start to proliferate and they can’t be seen by a PSMA PET scan. So the patient can be left with future serious issues.

We do have a couple of doctors say they like doing this and it works. I also am not convinced.