IMRT Primary Treatment @ 3.5 Yrs.

Paralleli,

It is good to see your post . I thought I was the only guy in the World with IMRT as a primary treatment. I am approaching five years and was 59 at the start of treatment . My PSA was 3.34 before treatment. I was a gleason 7 (3+4). Three out of ten samples showed cancer. Two were five percent or less and one was 65 per cent. I was staged T1C. I had 38 treatments for a total of 7600. They used the BAT machine to find the prostate each day. Long term side effects have been almost zero. If I eat hard to digest foods such as popcorn or use a lot of asprin I sometimes , but not always , see a speck of blood on my stool after a bowl movement. I had the normal short term side effects……………loose bowls and some stinging when urinating. All short term side effects were gone within two weeks. I was able to workout……..run…………..29 of the 38 treatment days. The 10 days that I did not run it was just to cold out side. (below 15 degrees or snowing). First PSA after treatment was done at about six weeks ………0.89.……..then every six months. I too have had some fluctuation in my PSA scores. When I first met the Rdoc he mentioned that the PSA would probably go up and down , and up and down . I have heard that it could be due to slight inflammation or infection such as prostatitis . PSAs have been 0.56.………….0.313.…………..0.401.…………….0.295.…………….0.47.…………………..0.336.………..0.32.…………………0.46.…………..I am due for a test this week it will be the 54 month mark. I picked IMRT to try and stay away from incontinence . The radiation center was also only three miles from my home.