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I did the five-proton treatment at Mayo Phoenix. It was a Monday-Wednesday-Friday-Monday-Wednesday. My three- and nine-month...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1028920/

Discussion: Radiation instead of removal (surgery delayed due to illness)

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Mar 6, 2024

The question that is often not asked is; what is the frequency of recurrence for radiation...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1004146/

Discussion: Why would my doctors recommend surgery over radiation?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 26, 2024

I did not have surgery just 30 rounds of proton beam radiation treatments. My urine flow...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/918007/

Discussion: Best Kegel App?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 24, 2023

I had some urinary symptoms. What I got was the inability to hold the urge to...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/912115/

Discussion: Are bladder isses normal after external beam prostate radiation? Tips?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 13, 2023

I had the 6 month shot exactly 6 months ago today. I had the occasional calf...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/599668/

Discussion: Lupron dosing: side effects for 3 month dose vs. monthly dose

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: May 6, 2021

My friends think it's funny when I tell them that I joined this group, but I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1286253/

Discussion: So here it is. The manual I never wrote. The words I never said

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 20 4:42pm

I am in a clinical trial of no ADT, but I did have to cease TRT,...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1366342/

Discussion: Anyone here after ADT undergone TRT

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 8 10:50am

@mauk What are your doctors recommending? There are so many factors that affect decisions like this....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1317674/

Discussion: Questions about Active Surveillance as a treatment option

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jun 1 6:33am

I know the anxiousness you are experiencing, I went through it all last year. I am...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/821612/

Discussion: Question on 5 proton treatments with ADT

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Mar 6, 2023

Very similar diagnosis in Aug 2022, PSA 10.5, Gleason 3 + 3, MRI showed no external...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1204380/

Discussion: Just diagnosed, intermediate risk: Not sure which direction to go

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 5 9:06am

That’s a lot of biopsies in just 2 years. There’s always caution about turning your prostate...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1314867/

Discussion: New Additional Tumor

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: May 28 11:39am

@jeffmarc True, what the statistics now show is at least with radiation the outcomes are equal....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1151418/

Discussion: Gleason7(3+4) - treatment options recommendation

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 3, 2024

In 2021, was diagnosed with GS 9 T3n0 with extracapsular extension (ECE also referred to as...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1045840/

Discussion: Extracapsular extension of prostate cancer: Anyone have this?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 5, 2024

Yes you can drive. I had 30 rounds of proton radiation at UFPTI. The treatments are...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1012750/

Discussion: Finished 28 Proton Therapies

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 9, 2024

I am 72 I had 3+4 in less then 5% in one core second opinion downgraded...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/991951/

Discussion: Overtreatment of Prostate Cancer

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 5, 2024

The Moffitt Cancer Center has the mridian viewray machine which uses automatic shut off capabilities and...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/930410/

Discussion: Yes or No to Radiation

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Sep 15, 2023

That low PSA is your magic number. My oncologist would love that number and so would...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/927937/

Discussion: Husband's prostate cancer story

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Sep 11, 2023

I had 44 proton beam treatments at Mayo in Phoenix and they went well. I am...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/637439/

Discussion: Carbon Fidicial Marker, SPACEOAR Surgery & Proton Therapy

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Sep 21, 2021

Just a heads up on the use of Lupron. I was diagnosed with Prostrate Cancer October...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/283719/

Discussion: Stage 4 prostate cancer treatment options

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Mar 2, 2020

Hey Tim, I think you’re on the right track with Sloan - they’ve got decades of...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1385995/

Discussion: What would you do if PSA stayed at 0.15 after prostatectomy?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Sep 3 4:58pm

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