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Nearing decision time: what treatment?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 17 11:48am | Replies (12)Comment receiving replies
At 80, there is a time factor involved in the decision using quality of life as part of the strategy as you will be impacted by two sets of treatments. Many of the guys on this site have had medications to reduce the size of their prostate and then have done targeted radiation when the prostate was reduced in size. I bet they will chime in. If it were me, I would find the medication with the least side effects and shortest time to reduce the size of my prostate followed by an MRI guided radiation machine (with spaceoar inserted a week or so before).
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@bens1 I've considered meds to reduce prostate size but most forecast a modest reduction--114 cc to about 60cc is the most optimistic prediction with most suggesting about a 20% reduction to about 80-85ccs what would be expected. Or less than that. Tried tamsulosin a few years ago and didn't like the SEs. Maybe I'll go back to it. Also considering finasteride, but leery of those SEs as well. Appreciate your advice!