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Gleason 8 - Surgery scheduled in early Sept - timing ok?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 13, 2023 | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
When you start getting to the higher Gleason levels... surgery?
Here is a good website to compare odds of cure for the major treatment paths. You have to determine your stage, low risk, intermediate, or high risk (risk of recurrence). So if you are intermediate, pull up the intermediate chart and you can see odds of 10-20 yr survival, etc. based on the treatment you pick.
https://www.prostatecancerfree.org/compare-prostate-cancer-treatments/
It is best viewed on computer or just print it on paper. Not so viewable on phone.
To make the graphs easier to read, i drew a dot on the endpoints of the elipses, and then drew a line through the dots. This turns the elipses into lines.
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When you look at these sites, it's good to remember that they are often linked to providers, who have found them to be an excellent way to generate referrals. In this case, it doesn't take a lot of looking to identify the MD behind this site... https://www.seattlecca.org/providers/r-alex-hsi. And surprise, he is in fact a radiation oncologist 🙂
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Interesting. This looks like seeds + ERBT is the winner for my husband's risk group. But that was not offered to him as a treatment without 2 years of ADT - and he is unwilling to do the ADT