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63 yo, live in Europe, diagnosed w/ PCA in Aug 26 and hard to decide
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@toolbelt
Maybe SBRT is becoming considered Gold Standard, I don’t know, but if it is, that would be considered under Radiation Treatment .
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@wheel1
If you choose RT, SBRT is the way to go. My RO was able to visualize my urethra on the CT, and MRI and the PSMA PET and used "urethral contouring" to ensure my urethra did not get any radiation "hot spots". I was also fortunate that my RO was in the control room for each of my treatments....not all RO's do that. The technology is unbelievable. Once you have your tracking fiduciaries placed the machine monitors their relative position and turns off the beam if you are out of parameters. The table can move you left-right, up-down, back-forth in 0.1mm increments and yaw, tilt and roll in 0.1 degree increments. The machine did stop during one of my treatments and they moved me 0.3 mm..........