I am about halfway through my (fairly) run of the mill prostate treatment. 3 monthly Prostap and RT (20 sessions) last Oct/Nov. I had one hospital (in effect) refuse to give me RT as I had two replacement hips - I was then referred to another hospital - where my hips seemed to pose no problem whatsoever. (My diagnosing hospital has no radio therapy equipment) Not only did my metal hips seem to be ignored - the tattoos and the dreaded daily enemas were too ! As I had a 90+ mile train/bus round trip every day the enemas could have posed quite a problem !! Just drink 500ml of water - and I was ready to go (Literally !).........
The hospital that did my RT has 6 Linacs, all fitted with SGRT. I have been following many of the threads on this site and I cannot remember seeing any reference to SGRT being used elsewhere. Just lots of tattoos and enemas. I may just be extremely lucky - but my HT produced minimal side effects. The "blurb" on SGRT says it is much more accurately targeted than the 3 dot method. Equally, the RT has produced nothing in the way of attributable side effects - coincidence ? - or due to the machine ??
Just out of curiosity, I would be interested to know if anyone else had SGRT equipment used for their treatment and what their experience was.
