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Starting Proton Treatments for Prostate Cancer: Any experiences?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 1 5:01pm | Replies (150)Comment receiving replies
Good information. I am having the proton treatment also but at another provider. The side affects you mentioned were given to me as side affects and "normal" during and after the treatments.
When you had the SpaceOar did you feel it? Mine is pronounced and can feel it. It is just like they said feels like you need to take a BM. Mine seems to have leveled off but quite noticeable.
What is the SRBT? What I have is the pencil treatment and 6 weeks. I did have the Decipher, biopsy, MRI, Pet Scan, bone scan. When Decipher came back the oncologist at first consultation said was in contrast to biopsy as Decipher said "low risk" and biopsy said intermediate risk.
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The injection of SpaceOAR is less painful than a biopsy. If you experienced only minor discomfort with biopsy, you will need no anesthesiology other than the lidocaine which is administered just prior to injection of SpaceOAR. At least this was my experience at Mayo Clinic Rochester.
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I did not feel the SpaceOar as my urologist insistent that I be knocked out. His buddy must be an anesthesiologist and needed to make a mortgage payment even though he did my 30 core transperienal biopsy and knew I didn't flinch once. I am still pissed about it. I did not even notice anything after the procedure and the ficuidal marker placement. SRBT is the very high dose 5 radiation treatment weather it is proton or photon.