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Starting radiation & hormone tx for recurrence: Your experience?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 23, 2022 | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
natem, what is vital in your current situation is to find out EXACTLY where the recurring cancer lies. Where is it and to what level has it become. Find those answers and proceed from there. Our newer, state of the art proceedures should put you back on track. Let us know what your doctors tell you. I'm with you.
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They performed the newer PSMA Pet scan which helps find smaller tumors. At a .3 psa Doc advised only 40% chance of seeing/finding it. The scan came back inconclusive. There was a spot on my lymph nodes I wasn't happy about, but Radiologist Oncologist said it was a Type 3, advising that there's something standing out slightly, or zoom in a faint pinkish, supposedly inconclusive. A type 4 supposedly means they're likely cancer and type 5, is cancer. So I don't know... sounds like Hormone therapy for time left if micromatastisized : ( . I think I got it rather young at 53 and Prostatectomy , now recurrence @ .3 psa, 61 y.o. present
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I just had a PET scan about 10 days ago and they couldn't see anything. The radiation oncologist at Johns Hopkins suggested there would be about a 40% he would be able to see it at a .3, I heard there are new ones in CA that can even detect smaller, but probably only a handful because I believe they just approved them in December.