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What side effects, if any, did you have with Cyberknife?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: May 23 11:28am | Replies (35)
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@icorps . Be careful, once you have had High dose radiotherapy your anatomy will be messed up and could be a problem for any surgery. If anything, have surgery first then Cyberknife. I am a retired Trauma Surgeon.

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Jeff Marchi | @jeffmarc | May 20 10:50am

@alangjonesrs999

Here is an interesting article that discusses treatment after reoccurrence following Radiation, Where the recurrence occurred in the remaining prostate tissue. Surgery after radiation does cause some serious incontinence and ED issues, as if there were already enough.

People who have radiation as their primary treatment have been told by doctors that surgery isn’t really an option if there’s a reoccurrence. Other options are not really mentioned..

This study shows that both salvage focal therapy (HIFU and cryotherapy) and salvage surgery were equally effective at extending the life of a patient that started off with radiation.

Those that had focal therapy had fewer perioperative complications.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2844900

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