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- Since I'm not the physicist who devised my initial treatment plan, I can't tell you how much of the prostate they radiated.
- Yes, seven years after first Cyberknife they did a 2nd biopsy of my 2013-radiated prostate which determined Gleason 8's-9's.
- No, the 2nd time was not for metastasis, it was for biochemical recurrence within the prostate.
- During my first round of CK I was given 50Gy dosage ....8 years later I was given a reduced 38Gy dosage. Not sure who told you it can't be radiated again, since it obviously can... at least one time.
- My CK was done by Dr. Robert Meier at Swedish Cherry Hill in Seattle. Bob Meier and his physicist were both part of the team at Stanford that developed CK in the late 1990's and brought it to full FDA approval in 2001.
- However, they won't do it a third time should a need arise. If that happens, it's on to chemo of some sort.
- Never had a genetic test, and don't plan to. Too busy living my life to worry about it.
- Yes, my mother had colon cancer, and as a full-time smoked died of lung cancer.
- Personally I passed on RP surgery since at the time it seemed to be a guaranteed form of ED, but that's just a personal choice we all have to make.

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Normal SBRT dose is 74Gy to 80Gy during prostate cancer radiation to the prostate. That is a lifetime radiation amount for that spot. The fact that you only got 50Gy explains why you had BCR. They didn’t give you enough The first time so it came back. By the way, BCR means you have a metastasis in your prostate tissue. That’s what produces the PSA rise, a metastasis.

You now have the maximum dose, in that area, so they can’t radiate it again.

A genetic test only requires saliva or blood, Quite simple, You did get prostate cancer pretty young that’s why it would make sense. If you have children, and you have a genetic problem, you could’ve passed it on them and you have no way of knowing And they could have cancer as a result. Same thing goes for any aunts and uncles as well as nieces and nephews in that family line. Genetic testing is free. You could have it done at the same time as your next PSA test.