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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 10 6:24pm | Replies (648)
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@poodledoc

Hello Marko, I was in a very similar situation in Sept 2018. There is no rush to do any treatment, do your research and explore all the options. Does your urology group offer anything except surgery or radiation? If you ask and they dismiss anything else as experimental I would recommend you get a second opinion from a group that does offer optional treatments such as HIFU, you could very well qualify for a focal (not whole gland) treatment that would greatly decrease your chances of side effects. Bill

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marko1 | @marko1 | Feb 19, 2020

Good morning poodledoc
Thank you for your reply I hope all is well with you

I have researched and researched and researched spoke with doctors twice dealing with the cancer facility here in Maine at Maine medical Center partners good group of people but no they do not do any trials or anything different my options that they have given me a surgery or radiation and I’m having a lot of issues with what my life will be after. I do have an appointment scheduled at Dana-Farber to speak with three physicians they’re on trials on March 11 maybe they will give me some other alternatives I don’t know but I am being told that I should do something before summer my Glisan scores are mainly sevens now with 30% I believe is what they told me hard to take in all of this

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