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Meeting up with others who are having Proton Treatment
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 25 7:26pm | Replies (54)Comment receiving replies
Proton radiation is not usually done in five sessions. Are you certain it was PROTON? SBRT using photon radiation appears to be what you received. The proton therapy uses nuclear fission to split off the proton part of the particles and sends them to your prostate and is very expensive.
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@imbimbo SBRT can use either Photon or Proton.
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I too am scheduled for 5 treatment Proton Beam SBRT in December. I was told that the price is the same as Photon Beam. The positive appears to be that the Photons enter the prostate and then exit on the other side potentially impacting other areas. The protons enter the Prostate and do not exit. Definitive research on Protons versus Photons is only now starting to appear.