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Radiation @ 82 yrs old - 5 day or 5 week treatments?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: 6 days ago | Replies (26)
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I have the same diagnosis (T3b) and the age is close (85). I had 20 fractions over 4 weeks with no side effects at all with EBRT. Lower dose helps I think. I'm 9 months post-radiation and still no side effects. That was a better choice for me.

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heavyphil | @heavyphil | May 20 5:44am

@stew80 Yup, I had 25 over 5 weeks almost 2 yrs ago and even then there was talk of going down to 20.
Now that was for SRT, so I think for primary treatment they would definitely use a rectal gel spacer if it was gland defined. Best,
Phil

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