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Posted 09 Nov 2024 at 11:01

Has anyone been offered the 5 day radiotherapy treatment either on the NHS or Privately and if so what is the criteria for having it ? 

thanks

Peter 

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Posted 10 Nov 2024 at 00:05

Black lab, an in law of mine had the 5 sessions at a NHS hospital a couple of years ago. I believe it was part of the PACE trial. The criteria at the time that they were treating lower risk prostate cancer where HT was not required.

A subsequent change and I think it may have been PACE C ,was to include higher risk cancer.

Andy62 has previously posted some useful info on the the 5 session treatment. I will see if I find the conversation.

You could also use Google to find results of pace trial for prostate cancer.

Thanks Chris 

https://community.prostatecanceruk.org/posts/t30949-Radical-Prostatectomy-Versus-Stereotactic-Radiotherapy-for-Clinically-Localised-Prostate-Cancer#post299855

 

 

Edited by member 10 Nov 2024 at 00:08  | Reason: Link added

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Posted 10 Nov 2024 at 12:49

A couple of people in one of my support groups who were going to have LDR brachytherapy were offered the 5 fraction SABR instead at Mount Vernon, chose to take it, and are both very pleased.

It is to be offered on the NHS as a standard treatment. The trial sites and some others have continued doing it on the NHS, but last I heard a month back, the commissioning documents had not been sent out from NHS England, which was holding up offering it at non-research sites which hadn't already been doing it.

EDIT: this isn't MRI guided treatment - it's cone beam CT scan guided.

Edited by member 10 Nov 2024 at 12:51  | Reason: Not specified

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Posted 19 Nov 2024 at 18:49
I was offered 5 fractions of SBAR, then 1 week before, I had a planning CT scan, was advised against it due to potential issues with the level of Radiation....had 20 instead finished 7 weeks ago..all good
User
Posted 19 Nov 2024 at 19:45

I've got my last of 20 sessions tomorrow. Last of 6 months prostap today. Hoping to be the right side of side effects by Christmas and celebrating with a longed for pint! 

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Posted 10 Nov 2024 at 00:05

Black lab, an in law of mine had the 5 sessions at a NHS hospital a couple of years ago. I believe it was part of the PACE trial. The criteria at the time that they were treating lower risk prostate cancer where HT was not required.

A subsequent change and I think it may have been PACE C ,was to include higher risk cancer.

Andy62 has previously posted some useful info on the the 5 session treatment. I will see if I find the conversation.

You could also use Google to find results of pace trial for prostate cancer.

Thanks Chris 

https://community.prostatecanceruk.org/posts/t30949-Radical-Prostatectomy-Versus-Stereotactic-Radiotherapy-for-Clinically-Localised-Prostate-Cancer#post299855

 

 

Edited by member 10 Nov 2024 at 00:08  | Reason: Link added

User
Posted 10 Nov 2024 at 12:49

A couple of people in one of my support groups who were going to have LDR brachytherapy were offered the 5 fraction SABR instead at Mount Vernon, chose to take it, and are both very pleased.

It is to be offered on the NHS as a standard treatment. The trial sites and some others have continued doing it on the NHS, but last I heard a month back, the commissioning documents had not been sent out from NHS England, which was holding up offering it at non-research sites which hadn't already been doing it.

EDIT: this isn't MRI guided treatment - it's cone beam CT scan guided.

Edited by member 10 Nov 2024 at 12:51  | Reason: Not specified

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Posted 10 Nov 2024 at 18:14

5 blasts of RT without any HT sounds sooooo attractive to me. I wasn’t offered that but would have jumped at the chance knowing what I know now about the side effects of HT. There’s a guy in my Maggies support group, tall like me had only a year of HT, finished in June this year and can hardly walk with joint pains. It’s awful stuff for some people!

 

User
Posted 10 Nov 2024 at 18:31

Thanks for the reply, there’s so much to take in , all I seem to be hearing is there isn’t any easy route 

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Posted 17 Nov 2024 at 09:45
User
Posted 19 Nov 2024 at 18:49
I was offered 5 fractions of SBAR, then 1 week before, I had a planning CT scan, was advised against it due to potential issues with the level of Radiation....had 20 instead finished 7 weeks ago..all good
User
Posted 19 Nov 2024 at 19:45

I've got my last of 20 sessions tomorrow. Last of 6 months prostap today. Hoping to be the right side of side effects by Christmas and celebrating with a longed for pint! 

 
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