Fk radiation therapy. I went through so much pain for 3 weeks I almost blew my brains out. Another week and I would have. The cure is worse than the disease. But my PSA is under .05 now. So I’m doing all right. Still, I could never go through that again.
we may all soon be receiving radiation therapy for free
thanks to comrade xiden
I got 72 Gy over 39 days back in 2013. This was salvage after surgery did not achieve minimum PSA. It worked.
What’s going on with CyberKnife? I did it about 12 years ago, one of the first. Five treatments, little side effects. No issues since. The biopsy was the worst part. With the advent of very accurate narrow beam radiation I don’t understand clinging to what seems like old school blasting away for a month or so. No thanks.
My partner is currently undergoing radiation for prostate cancer with 21 PSA. I think they shortened his number of treatments. It was originally 40 days. Every day he takes the dozen or so vitamins/minerals/supplements I give him. He has not complained of much irritation down there. Mainly he has to go every 1.5 or 2 hours day and night, and feels some generalized fatigue. He had a PSA of 10 just before Covid hit, and did not do the next year’s annual physical becauuse he wanted to avoid Covid exposure. So when they did 16 biopsies with the 21 PSA, every one had a score of 2 or 3. THey decided to do anti-testosterone for 2 years and radiation rather than chemo or surgery. His total body scan did not show any metastesese. He is 78, so I hope we have 10 more good years with the promising news reported here.
There goes that “safe and effective” again.