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Why did you choose surgery instead of radiation or vise versa?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 24, 2023 | Replies (52)Comment receiving replies
When I was diagnosed in 2006 . Removal was the best option, as radiation wasn’t perfected as it is today. I had a friend who had radiation back in 2004 and he had very serious urinary and bowel issues. If I was in the same situation in 2023 I think , now, I would choose radiation, because it has been perfected so much.
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I have heard same comments from friends who had surgery back in early 2000s. Proton radiation was very limited. Then more hospitals and facilities started building them like UFPTI and Mayo.
The early days of having photon radiation did create a lot of side affects. However today's photon radiation has been fine tuned to keep radiation damage and side affects down from original treatments.
I chose proton as the biggest difference was photo will pass through body where proton stops as prostrate as it can be control where is releases it radiation. Proton and Photon have same cure rates it is just the fine tuning and radiation not passing through body is the biggest difference.