Bladder full or bladder empty?

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I finished 20 days of RT in March. While sat in the waiting room you look around at other people and I assumed that most of the older men were there for prostate cancer treatment. I noticed that some of the men were given paper cups and asked to drink water before their procedure. On a recent thread the poster mentioned the need to have a full bladder before RT. I was told the exact opposite, and that I needed an empty bowel and bladder.

So have I misunderstood what was going on, or is there a reason why some people need bladder empty and others bladder full?