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I think you intended to say "Proton has all the energy through only two paths." What...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/874956/

Discussion: Final decision on treatment: Viewray or Truebeam?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jun 8, 2023

I also had a Pi-Rads 4 lesion of 7 mm with a PSA of 2.9 and...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/855580/

Discussion: New to group, usually don’t join groups that would have me as a member

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: May 6, 2023

Still looking for someone to comment who had the Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) using traditional...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/646778/

Discussion: Photon Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 20, 2021

@climateguy I am not actively posting on MC Connect but if get a tagged question directly...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1463722/

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

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Dec 19, 2025

@briang1958 PSA doubled again in 3 months following 2nd photon beam therapy SBRT. So far both...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1462319/

Discussion: No erection after 5 years after radical prostatectomy

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Dec 16, 2025

@johnny8924 If I read right you had IMRT. I believe that is internal type of radiation...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1449235/

Discussion: Cologuard positive. Can I have a colonoscopy 8 months after radiation?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Nov 29, 2025

As a Gleason seven, your cancer grows very slowly. You are a 4+3 The lower number...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1436061/

Discussion: Prostatectomy vs Photon radiation vs Proton Beam Therapy

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Nov 11, 2025

@steveduke I was a patient at Mayo Jacksonville since 2006. I had all my PSA tests...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1409366/

Discussion: Newly diagnosed and looking for treatment advice.

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 6, 2025

While the decipher score may have something to do with treatment. You can have radiation or...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1391194/

Discussion: Why are urologists dismissive about Decipher?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Sep 10, 2025

4rs, I just posted a 10 paragraph response to your question and somehow it got lost...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1384426/

Discussion: 44yr PSA180 Gleason9 non-metastatic. Surgery or Treatment?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Sep 1, 2025

It will be three years in September since I was diagnosed. My PCP had me go...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1383277/

Discussion: Last PSA Number Before Cancer Diagnosis?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 31, 2025

Jeff makes a good point. Adjuvant/salvage radiation is not the pinpoint accurate type that MRI guided...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1375678/

Discussion: Adjuvant Radiation Therapry (ART) vs Early Salvage radiology

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

@clandeboye1, first thanks for following up! I'll remind you I'm a Gleason 3/4 with < 10%...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1265816/

Discussion: SBRT Late Stage Radiation Toxicity-Anyone Experienced These?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Mar 24, 2025

I completed 28 sessions of photon EBRT with True Beam CAT-scan guided technology at the end...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1245880/

Discussion: Any advice or shared experiences with SpaceOAR Hydrogel?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 26, 2025

Not an expert either, but I believe CyberKnife is an image-guided EBRT machine that uses traditional...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1240532/

Discussion: Is Brachytherapy, Cyberknife, or Proton Beam available in Jacksonville

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 19, 2025

Interesting question. I’m going on two years in May since ending treatment. I had high beam...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1215368/

Discussion: Did prostate cancer treatment lower your white cell blood count?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 18, 2025

I am not familiar with salvage radiation and thus need to be careful about my comments...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1184125/

Discussion: Recently received prostate cancer diagnosis: need a second opinion.

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Dec 4, 2024

Same here, Ed. I did not have metastasis per se, but RO said that cells ‘could’...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1338695/

Discussion: I'm conflicted

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jun 30, 2025

I had a couple episodes of mile bleeding one year out from treatment (Proton 29 times)....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1313060/

Discussion: Biking after severe radiation proctitis

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: May 26, 2025

Hey Vircet, the Linac doesn’t need fiducials because it tracks the prostate in 3D with realtime...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1293464/

Discussion: SpaceOAR causing issues

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 30, 2025