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Posted 11/20/2009 1:59 AM (GMT 0)
went to a radiation oncologist today at our local hospital and had a examination and talked.

he wants to do a ct scan and bone scan and also a prostate scan. this test takes about 3 trips to the hospital and our hospital does not do this test.

will have to go to pittsburgh,pa. the oncologist also wants to do a hormone therapy. has anyone had this prostate scan and hormone treatment?.

after all of this , he will wants to do radiation. he hopes the pc is in the area where the prostate was removed and then he can zap that area with radiation.

 i thought this would be done over with just radiation, but i guess they want to be sure.

Posted 11/20/2009 2:09 AM (GMT 0)
gregory,

having salvage radiation done with or without HT is always a big subject. i met with 3 different radiation oncologists before I chose, and two wanted just to just radiation, and one wanted radiation with HT. you will find there are a lot of opinions on this subject, and lots of merits with either path.

you may wish to have more than one opinion on this treatment path. in the end, i went for what the 2 radiation onclogists suggested, which was backed by my uro/surgeon and my long term GP. So far, I am comfortable with my choice.

I will still have HT available in the future should the radiation fail too.

Good luck to you as your sort all this out.

David in SC
Posted 11/20/2009 2:27 AM (GMT 0)
this is my second radiation oncology and after what i heard  about this scan ,it gives me second thoughts.

i will talk to my uro/surgeon and get his thoughts on this.

Posted 11/20/2009 3:18 AM (GMT 0)
gather all the opinions you can, my friend, knowledge is strength here, and knowledge will help knock out any fears or doubts
Posted 11/20/2009 3:41 AM (GMT 0)
I think the doctor wants to make sure there isn't detctable distant metastasis before doing the pelvic radiation.

If there's distant metastasis the pelvic radiation isn't going to work.

It makes sense to me.  Why are you having second thoughts?

Dave

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