Posted 1/3/2014 2:42 PM (GMT 0)
The only problem with lots of research, is that it becomes so confusing. In looking back, and seeing all of the side effects that Pete had over the past many years because of the first treatment: external radiation, plus seeds, plus one year of lupron…and then the salvage surgery five years later, which is what caused all of the problems.. we would have had the surgery first. If you have surgery first, you can always have the radiation later, but not the other way around. And now we are dealing with the second fistula which the radiation caused and also colon cancer, which they now say was caused by the original radiation. It is a new cancer that is taking place at the site of the first fistula. Who knew all this would happen…and we did lots of research.. I think AS may have been the best solution for us. , but hindsight is 20/20, and it does no good to keep going over it… Di