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Decision time SBRT, IMRT or surgery
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@northoftheborder With the experience I have had with 2 surgeons not to good of a feeling but for different reasons. I really had no real problem with either oncologists I have met with. I am in a pretty rural area and do not feel real comfortable with the local hospitals for this so the second opinion was at Duke and that is 1 1/2 hours away. I am as I said leaning towards the SBRT with or without the ADT (whatever the Dr's final call is on that. I keep having second thoughts so just struggling with a decision.
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@harvey33 You're struggling because it's impossible to have enough information in advance to make the optimal choice. It's only afterwards that you discover whether surgery or radiation caused difficult side-effects (and even then, the other might have been worse).
There's just too much variation post-surgery/radiation from person to person to select one logically; otherwise, they wouldn't be offering both of them to you. Everyone who shares their experiences with you here is working from a sample size of 1.