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Posted 13 Jan 2024 at 09:58

They didn't really give one - they were very much "this is what we are going to do". They were very positive about it. We didn't ask for alternatives because I think it was fairly evident it would have been the hormone treatment which OH wants to avoid as long as possible. It was a bit of a shaker as we had been hoping for no spread and then standard salvage RT.

OH is looking at it as a positive as there is no HT involved yet and it is still a possible "cure" or at least remission which is as good as in our view. I hope yours works out colwick

Yes Lyn the initial shock was tempered by the "but we can do something about it and we know where it is" response. Cyberknife sounds pretty cool anyway. I'm visioning a legolas type figure in miniature running around his pelvis smiting all the goblin like cells.

 

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"Time is like a drug. Too much of it kills you." - Terry Pratchett

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Posted 16 Mar 2024 at 07:47

So Colwick how was your treatment? OH is in the middle of SABR and finding it really easy. Has had 2 sessions and one to go. So far no side effects and the steroids they have given him (presumably for a bit of a boost) means he is doing jobs that have been hanging around for ages as he is feeling so fit!

"Time is like a drug. Too much of it kills you." - Terry Pratchett

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Posted 16 Mar 2024 at 09:45

Jo, I had two separate courses of SABR first course in August 2022 and another course in may 2023. No side effects from the SABR, both were 5 sessions to two separate lymph nodes. The PSA did shoot up after the first course and a second scan lit up the second lymph node. The last PSA was around 0.42 and the plan is for another PSA in May, if the PSA is 1 or the doubling time Les than three months then I have another PSMA scan. 

They did have to rewrite the treatment program part way through treatment and I was on and off the table a few times.

Bicalutamide with the SABR last year was tolerable and apart from some very slight breast tissue everything is back to normal.

This was posted yesterday and describes the treatment for oligometastatic prostate cancer.

My profile lists tests and treatments over the last ten years. Hope all goes well for you two.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ktMYPcO29WU

 

Thanks Chris 

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