PET scan dilemma.

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Posted 04 Sep 2020 at 04:28

Most decent bulletin boards have a symbol to click to post a hyper-link and then you just type it. This one did at one time I seem to recall. Yet it disappeared the same way as the ‘back to top’ button.

I have just discovered the hyper-link button and others on the edit page. Why aren’t they there for the original post? It would take the programmer about five minutes to fix it!

Cheers, John.

Edited by member 04 Sep 2020 at 04:33 | Reason: Not specified

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Posted 04 Sep 2020 at 04:55

Just checked because I know I've put hyperlinks in original posts, and the link is there.

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Posted 04 Sep 2020 at 06:37

If you are using the android platform touch and hold a word in the web address and it will bring up option to open the link, you may need to sometimes select all of the address.

Thanks Chris

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Posted 10 Sep 2020 at 13:55

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

I am not sure how helpful that is, to be honest. It doesn't seem very kind to warn someone away from what is normal practice in the UK simply because it is a bit different in your specific case. HT does far more than just alter a lab result - in most cases, it starves the cancer so that the radiotherapy has a bigger impact; to suggest it has no clinical benefit is bizarre. The paper you have linked is a literature review, based on other people's previous work including trials that closed in 2006 and 2010 - it is also hard to know what bias may have influenced the choice of data to use in the literature review ... generally speaking, you can find statistics to support whatever conclusion you hope to find.

Sorry if it was taken the wrong way, but I shared it to share information. I learn a lot from others posts and as a result I knew to ask specifically about HT with SRT. And my oncologist said for my situation, he would not recommend it. (whereas I know from posts here that most on this forum get HT). So being curious, I looked for more information on this.

More information on different practices can't be a bad thing. My center prides itself on being one of top cancer centers in the world. Doesn't mean everything they do is right, but wanted to just share my experience.

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Posted 10 Sep 2020 at 15:39

It was more a criticism of that particular piece of research & the conclusions drawn out as a result. Absolutely, your onco is best placed to advise you on your specific case - but it is important that others reading this thread in the future understand that it may not apply to them.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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