#salvage therapy

Hormone therapy + salvage radiation therapy to treat prostate cancer + interrupted sleep at night = low energy and long naps.

People with prostate cancer who received hormone therapy plus pelvic lymph node treatment experienced an average five-year survival of 87%.

It’s been an interesting few weeks of conversations, concern, and coordination.

In a nutshell, he suggested doing concurrent androgen deprivation (hormone) therapy with the salvage radiation.

Yes, I had the PSA test done about three weeks sooner than I had planned.

I’ve been playing around with two nomograms that offer predictions on the outcome of salvage radiation therapy (SRT).

In my previous post, I mentioned that Dr. Kwon was a pioneer in dealing with oligometastatic prostate cancer.

We’re right back where we started from: Zap early with an average 50-50 shot of it being effective or do nothing but monitor.

I’ve only skimmed the full studies at the moment. On the surface, however, the numbers have eased my fear of long-term side effects a tad.

While I didn’t get physically ill, my anxiety was high as I waited to see the radiation oncologist. It’s silly, I know—but it was very r...