what is chances of recurring pc after radiation

What is chances I will have prostate cancer after

42 treatments of radiation treatment?  In feb 07

i was diagnosed with pc and then in mar 07 i was

diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer on my back.

I finished radiation last month on pc and surgery

on melanoma in mar 07.   On July 18 had my first

psa after radiation and waiting on results.  My

first pathology was 5 specimens with 3 with

full length adenocarcinoma and psa level of 7.6.

I will go back to radiation onclolgy  on july 30

to see how radiation did.  What if it didn't work

what would be next step.

Thanks for comments and suggestions.

 

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I would like your for help and I am already on

hormone treatment every 4 months. 

But i done research and it says hormone treatment

might not work.  I am still looking at surgery,

because had prostate cancer and later (about 3

years developed lung and brain cancer which

took his life.  I will keep you posted during the

next weeks the outcome of the treatments.

I wish I would had a 2nd opinion in the first place

and had the surgery. 

Thanks for your comments and I will keep everyone

in my prayers.

Bill

Dear Bill

I am a little confused by your two postings. I think you are saying that you had radiation treatment and are also on hormone treatment every 4 months. You indicate that someone had died of prostate cancer--the way it is worded it almost sounds like you were referring to yourself.

What kind of radiation treatment did you have? You did not indicate your Gleason scores resulting from the your biopsy or your stage of prostate cancer before treatment. You seem to indicate that your biopsy was only 5 cores which doesn't make sense as that is too few to accurately project your stage of cancer. What is your age?

Do not look back at what you did or didn't do. Both surgery and radiation can often achieve the same results. With radiation, a margin of tissue beyond your prostate usually receives radiation treatment which may be more effective than surgery. With surgery, there is no guarantee that the surgeon will get all of any cancer that has spread to the margins beyond the prostate (which is the reason why surgery patients sometimes have recurring prostate cancer, which is often treated with radiation).

Hormone treatment does not eradicate prostate cancer--it just slows its growth down for a period of time and lowers the PSA readings.

With radiation treatment, it can take up to 24 months before the PSA will reach its lowest point (i.e., the cancer cells die off slowly after radiation treatment). The first PSA test after 3 months will hopefully be lower that your PSA before treatment. Don't worry about your first PSA test unless it is greater than you pre-treatment PSA which is unlikely. On occassion, there is something called PSA bounce which means a higher PSA reading that the one before, sometime after treatment. In a great majority of cases where this happens, your PSA will eventually start to go down again. The prostate cancer experts say this is not something to get alarmed about unless your subsequent PSA readings continue to go up.

Try to relax and not let this consume you. Unless you haven't told us some vitial information, it is too early for you to be thinking or worrying about recurring prostate cancer.

As you will see by my footnote, I have recently finished proton radiation treatment and am awaiting my 3-month PSA results. I am not thinking about recurring prostate cancer at this time. I feel very positive about the future. If I have a setback at some point, I will deal with it at that time. In the meantime, I try to stay educated about the most recent advances in the treatment of prostate cancer, especially for those who may have to deal with recurring prostate cancer in the future. Best of luck to you! Peace!

Dave

Hello bill,

Don't drive yourself to distraction with the "What Ifs". Just keep focusing all you energy on getting well, and let the radiation theropy work. ALL the different treatments; surgery, radiation, and hormone have the same high degree of success. Please think good thoughts because you will beat this PCa, and we'll be here to cheer you on.

Glen

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