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any advice would help thanks

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Posted 29 Oct 2020 at 10:06
I and three friends aged around sixty were all diagnosed with prostate cancer about two years ago. We all had prostatectomies.

Three of them had recurrence shortly afterwards, and had to undergo hormone and adjuvant radio therapies subsequently, which they could have had in the first place, without surgery. I am the only one who didn’t need it (so far).

Talk it over with your specialists, one in four is not a scientific survey of course, but I wonder if my mates wished they had gone for RT in the first place?

Best of luck.

Cheers, John.

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Posted 29 Oct 2020 at 21:55
The are no certainties with PCa. I knew a guy who had very similar diagnosis to mine but had a RP which didn't fully eradicate his cancer so he had HT+RT and as many years have now passed without any sign of any cancer he wishes he had not had surgery but just RT.

I was told I could have RP but the surgeon doubted he could remove all the cancerous cells so I went the RT route suggested for me instead plus some HIFU to deal with a recurrence. I now have a tumour the size of a grain of rice in the Prostate, that may require treatment if it grows significantly. I do wonder in hindsight whether I would have been better having surgery and then RT to deal with cancer beyond the Prostate, so I might be cancer free, albeit with some additional or more severe side effects now. We all make our decisions and inevitably some of these will not work out so well or leave us with side effects that may not have been necessary. It's best not to hark back but to deal with our ongoing situations.

Barry
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Posted 29 Oct 2020 at 22:44

I agree with the no certainties

Was on AS for 2 years then after been staged T2 went for open RP March 20. Currently PSA undetectable and no significant side effects. Who knows what the future holds but I'm happy with my decisions

 
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