Thanks for the different ideas! I haven't been real keen on radiation so far but there are a lot of guys who do opt for it. Have a friend who had surgery and a while later had some cancer in another area and he just did radiation and hormone therapy together and it worked great and he was surprised at how little side effects he had. Much less than expected. .........The book may need updating as procedures seem to be advancing rapidly these days. .........I've gone to a support group a few times and heard lots of stories but a lot of different approaches taken and people have different medical things going on so hard to pinpoint 1 thing or protocol to take. They have a different medical professional each meeting. After I told my story and about meeting with the different radiation and oncology people and then trying to make a decision about what protocol to follow, trying to decide about something I knew nothing about a few months before and still know very little, this Dr. was rather taken aback that such an important decision isn't helped along more by group interaction with all the medical professionals involved. Basically that we have to troll around and find out whatever we can and then make the decision ourselves when we barely know what is going on.............