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Rising PSA at 5 months post-RALP

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 23 4:53pm | Replies (46)

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@clevelandguy Dr Kwon seems to be in your camp; he doesn’t seem big on SRT based on PSA until you can see something on a scan - then he will treat THAT lesion.
But it begs the question: if you have a visible lesion do you have many more NOT YET visible and therefore, would not be treated?
In my own case, I wanted full pelvic SRT as soon as I hit 0.18 (6 mos Orgovyx as well).
My thinking was that hopefully - and that’s all we’ve got folks - any cancer was still in the bed and the nodes and I wanted to kill it before it left the immediate area.
If I waited and waited for something to ‘show’ on a PET scan (mine was negative at 0.18) maybe it would have made its way to a lung, a rib or some other distant area.
True, that can still happen, and then treatment will probably be SBRT - whack-a-mole - and ADT for a long time. Best,
Phil

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@heavyphil
Yes you are correct,either radiate the whole area(hopefully the cancer is in that area) and has not spread to the hips or lungs or wait till it shows up and play whack a mole. Due to the radiation side effects I personally would rather do the whack a mole.