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Will Radiation Therapy Assist Prostate Cancer After Having A Prostatectomy?
My husband had a prostetectomy in February for prostate cancer. After the surgery his PSa was .03, 3 months after it was .05 and his most recent test shows it at .12. Is the cancer more likely to be localised or a metastasised cancer? His continence is currently imperfect, if he has radiation therapy but the cancer is a metastasised one, I am concerned that he will be worse off as far is continence is concerned with no effect on the cancer. They want to begin radiation therapy very quickly, can't we wait till we know WHERE the cancer has re-curred?
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Hi...the first spread of a cancer is local then its spreads...so giving radiotherapy at the tumor bed is the best thing to do..
Dr. Ashish Verma
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