Has anyone had cryotherapy after having recurrent prostate cancer after proton radiation

[Racer26]

Is it beneficial to have cryotheropy after cancer has came back to prostate after proton. prostate has swelled and i'm self cathing mostly at night, cancer has spread to hip bones 3 areas so far been on zytiga for 3 months Lupron 3yrs predisone ,Flomax, Avodart, Psa o.86 testosterone 8 appreciate your input been fighting this war since 5/11 gleason 8 psa8

[Tall_Allen]

Talk to your urologist about a TURP (Holep or surgical)

[Racer26 in reply to Tall_Allen]

Thank you for your advice

[Hidden in reply to Tall_Allen]

I second that advice. The fact that your Uro hasn't already recommended it makes me wonder about him (or her).

[Racer26 in reply to Tall_Allen]

Thank you I'm in Fl. and seeking a second opinion at Turk Oncology in St Augustine they said don't worry about the the 3 bone mets they can radiate them, that the prostate has to treated due to the swelling from the reacurrent cancer. my oncologist in Illinois told us nothing could be done,this is what you get who do you believe. I do believe in you. Thanks

[Tall_Allen in reply to Racer26]

You may also wish to consider Rezūm therapy to reduce the prostate:

goldjournal.net/article/S00...

I have no idea which kind of prostate reduction is best for your situation. i can only advise that you discuss them with urologists who have experience with these prostate-reduction therapies. I notice that one of the authors is: Marc C. Gittelman ̶ South Florida Medical Research, Aventura, FL; I think you can get HoLEP or TURP at Mayo or UF in Jacksonville or at U of Miami

[GP24]

I would recommend salvage surgery of the prostate. However, only very few surgeons will agree to make this difficult operation.

[Racer26 in reply to GP24]

thank you very mch

[Hidden]

Cryro would be a waste in my opinion as it doesn’t do anything about systemic disease.

[Racer26 in reply to Hidden]

The uro/oncologist said the cancer in the prostate is making the Zytiga work twice as hard. He said if we do seeds or cryo it wiil kill the cancer. Thank you for your input

[Hidden in reply to Racer26]

I agree. I assumed that the prostate was already fried, killing the cancer within....... geez, that speaks really well for protons as a primary treatment.

GD

[Racer26]

41 days of treatment driving 120 miles a day if I only knew !! Now it's back prostate swelled were I have to cath Zytiga for 3 months psa was 4.4 then down to 0.86 and within the last month back up to 2.17 did Zytiga stop working??

[Hidden]

No experience with it but Cryo seems a very crude and unfocused treatment option. The opposite of Cryo (cold) would be HIFU (heat). You might look into that but you would definitely need TURP prior to it.

[Racer26 in reply to Hidden]

i'm listening to what everyone has to say Thanks