Has anyone had Brachytherapy/Seeds

I had brachytherapy done in 2020 and my PSA has been undetectable for 5 years.

I had brachytherapy in 2006. I haven't had a detectable PSA since.
However, I had a lot of radiation damage in the surrounding tissues.

My husband had brachytherapy with seeds plus external beam radiation when he was first diagnosed, way back in 2005. His PSA stayed low for six years, when it rose substantially and he had his first recurrence. Twenty years and many and varied treatments later, he is still here and doing OK. Brachytherapy treatment may well have changed a lot since 2005, but I know other men who have recently been treated with it, so it is still in the arsenal of weapons used against prostate cancer.

That's fantastic! For context, what were the detailed results of your biopsy and, if you had it done, your Decipher score?

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Bill

I had LDR Brachytherapy in Dec 2019. Gleason score was 4+3. All 12 cores cancerous with 4 aggressive cancer. PSA of 10.7. After LDR B, my PSA never went below 1, then over the next 2 years it was back up to 9.7. PET Scan showed cancer had spread to my right pelvic lymph nodes. Did SBRT Radiation and 8 months of Lupron Depot. Since then my PSA has been undetectable at 0.13. I'm getting my PSA checked this week so we'll see what happens next. Fingers crossed.

Interstitial radio therapy ['seeds'/ LDR], may cost as little as 5K, HDR ?$, SBRT (5 visits ) maybe 25K, IMRT may be 35K.Is it any wonder that it is difficult to find an (RO) relatively low tech solution for many,...maybe most in the early diagnosis PSMA PET CT scan negative for ECE. Dr Kishan at UCLA is using SBRT for even HIGH Risk 'early birds' As CMS (taxpayers) pays for the graduate training of radiation oncologists maybe a little leverage can be exerted to require competency in cheaper solutions? Just saying.

The good thing for me is I’m in Canada so everything was paid for under our Government health insurance. I feel sorry for the people in the US who are in my position and need thousands of dollars worth of Cancer care and don’t have insurance or are losing their insurance.

Just got my PSA result - 0.19. Looks like the SBRT and Lupron did the job.

I have a 95 year old uncle who has had the seeds for probably 40 years. He is living independently (tells me he and my aunt are bumping into each other with their walkers)
sure worked for him