Removal and return of Cancer

Not much detail so I have to make assumptions, which might not be correct.

My guess is the cyberknife treatment would be with a curative intent, and can probably be offered because the cancer is outside of the previous radiotherapy treatment area. It is radiotherapy using very thin X-ray beams from multiple angles, and is ideally suited to zapping up to a few lymph nodes or small bone mets. Being a high power treatment (unlike external beam radiotherapy), hormone therapy treatment is not usually beneficial with it.

Hormone treatment by itself is not a curative treatment, and I presume would be lifelong to delay the growth of the cancer. It would eventually fail.

Given those two choices, I would leap at the chance of a curative treatment with cyberknife. If it doesn't work, you still have the hormone therapy option afterwards.

However, I'm making a hell of a lot of assumptions, and I might be on the wrong path completely. You really need to get this information from the consultant or clinician offering the choice.

Edited by member 20 Apr 2020 at 08:57  | Reason: Not specified

Bri,
This varies between oncologists and treatment centres.
Also, I strongly suspect you are more likely to be offered a PET scan (not the same as a CT scan) if the centre has a PET scanner, than if they have to send you somewhere else to get one. (It probably also means their consultants will understand the scan report better if they're routine, rather than an exception.)