Had posrate removed 2 years ago psa before surgery was 10 Gleason score of7 after surgery still Gleason 7 but had positive surgical margins psa after surgery was 0 005 but has now reached 0.11 has anybody had radiotherapy afer surgery and did it cure them
I had radiotherapy after surgery but circumstances were much higher grade with my PSA rising to 0.3 then quickly to 0,7 a year or so after surgery with negative margins.
I think the slow rise of your PSA to 0.11 after 2 years is very likely to be due to cells left in the prostate bed. This would mean salvage radiotherapy would have a very good chance of success. Have you spoken to an oncologist? Technically biochemical recurrence is when PSA reaches 0.2 or you have 3 increasing PSA results so acting early is also important to improve chance of success.
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Hi Alfred, unfortunately yes. I have radiation proctitis in my bowel which isn’t pleasant and also having recovered continence after surgery do leak urine a little. One pad per day maximum.
Ido4
I had 4 weeks of radiotherapy (20 days) with a dose of 55 Grays.
This took place March/April 2017. I was on hormone therapy until April 2019.
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