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Day 8 post SBRT

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jan 9 11:33am | Replies (13)

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One thing that might help: my radiation oncologist explained to me that the radiation keeps working for about six weeks after the SBRT treatments finish, which is why side-effects sometimes don't surface until then.

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Yeah the organs at risk (OAR) can take a while to manifest the damage incurred from the radiation.