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Knowing ASAP if with recurrence - Your Thoughts, Please!
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jan 18 11:21pm | Replies (52)Comment receiving replies
All great comments here - showing just how difficult and variable this disease is. I had Gleason 4+3 unfavorable and two radiation oncolgists said they could treat it successfully. That word ‘unfavorable’ gnawed at me and against every fiber in my being I went for RP.
The reason was already mentioned: if PSA post op starts rising you can retreat with ADT and radiation - VERY difficult to do it the other way around. 4 1/2 yrs later PSA is rising, now at .14. Going to Sloan today for follow up with a second PSA.
Not looking forward to any of this, but the threat was always there so now I deal with it.
You never mentioned your husband’s age and that has a lot to do with treatment options. I was 64 at diagnosis but if I were 74 It would have been cyberknife all the way.
As one oncologist told me: whatever you decide will be the right decision. Yes, it leaves a lot to chance but that’s life, right? Best of luck!!
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So good to read what you have to say, heavyphil. Jim is 71, good weight and healthy. Neither the urologist nor Jim's primary doctor have any concern about him having the surgery. We hope the symptoms aren't too difficult to live with, and that there's good improvement over time with them. And hoping, of course, that they get all the cancer. (That is if he definitely decides surgery is his option--which I hope he does.) Sorry to hear about your rising PSA 4-1/2 years down the road. As I'm typing this, you've maybe had your appointment at Sloan. Sloan has a great reputation. (We're at Mayo Rochester.) Sure hope you get the information you'll need to move forward successfully. I love what you said in your last paragraph! Best of luck to you, too!
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As you implied....what ever informed decision you make is the best decision for you, and do not ever doubt that decision.