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Request PHI test - Prostate Health Index - more accurate & informative than PSA. Make sure...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1397530/

Discussion: PSMA scan conflicting results

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Sep 20, 2025

Good to hear that you have finished the IMRT. For your particular case, that probably was...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1184300/

Discussion: How long between IMRT and brachytherapy boost?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Dec 4, 2024

Prostatectomy becomes a salvage Prostatectomy when it is secondary treatment after a primary treatment fails. In...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1128331/

Discussion: PET Scan Results in

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 21, 2024

I too had a medial lobe issue about 10 yrs ago but mine was treated with...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1135079/

Discussion: TURP Alternatives

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Sep 2, 2024

@diverjer You have a Gleason 4+3 7 BUT you have large cribriform and doctors a UCSF...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1502722/

Discussion: prostate MRI results one year after SBRT

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 10 6:44pm

I had the the Optilume procedure November 2023 following 3 other laser procedures to open my...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1494468/

Discussion: Optilume Balloon Treatment for Prostatic Strictures

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 30 5:57pm

I’ll weigh in here because I had HDR brachytherapy in 2012. I’ve had stage four and...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1158789/

Discussion: My Treatment Decision Is In: Single Seed Brachytherapy

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 18, 2024

I was also thinking about HDR Brachytherapy with Dr. Chang at UCLA, he has done over...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1046677/

Discussion: Has anyone had HDR Brachytherapy for locally advanced Prostate cancer

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 7, 2024

Was your cribriform over .25 mm? That makes it much more aggressive. Surgery is usually the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1359550/

Discussion: Gleason 7 (4+3), ECE, PSA 3 – Considering IMRT + ADT vs. Surgery –

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 29, 2025

Hey @gshep A Western Radiation Oncology doctor. I think Dr. Ankit Agarwal will perform the procedure....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1254645/

Discussion: Experienced Permanent Seed Brachytherapy Doctors

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Mar 10, 2025

First of all, thank you for taking the time to post a response. As you’ve likely...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1124415/

Discussion: Total inability to have an orgasm post radiation

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 15, 2024

I am starting in a similar tri-modal regimen for 4+3=7 PC. I started: 1. ADT/Orgovyx about...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/957419/

Discussion: Experience with combo Brachytherapy seed implants and EBRT

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Nov 1, 2023

Here is what the NCCN (National Comprehensive Cancer Network) 2025 Guidelines state: Local Secondary Therapy for...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1219965/

Discussion: urologist and radiation oncologist aren't on the same page

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 23, 2025

@wwsmith I actually posted about that information at one time. If 5 or more were found...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1476041/

Discussion: Possible Extracapsular Extension - How much influence on treatment(s)?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 6 5:10pm

@heavyphil He really hit the nail on the head with the fact that radiation doesn’t always...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1462675/

Discussion: Prostatectomy or Radiation? Lot of stress over which to choose

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Dec 17, 2025

I had 4 + 3 = 7 and 7.1 PSA and wanted no part of RP....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1340284/

Discussion: Brachytherapy or Prostatectomy? How did you choose?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 3, 2025

Dr. Rosenbaum is my urologist out of Walnut Creek, and will be handling my aftercare going...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/874840/

Discussion: Biopsy results, seeing urologist on (6/9/23)

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jun 8, 2023

Hi jc76, I met with my urologist and oncologist at one highly regarded hospital in a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/868896/

Discussion: Starting Proton Treatments for Prostate Cancer: Any experiences?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: May 29, 2023

What I found as I was reviewing resources back in 2019/2020 (for my 2021 proton radiation...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1326466/

Discussion: ADT first then Radiation? Or Surgery?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jun 13, 2025

I have a friend who has three 4+4 = 8 lesions and just had HIFU done...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1446146/

Discussion: Any experiences with HIFU localized ablation for prostate cancer?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Nov 24, 2025

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