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update on the PSA 0,7, Geason 7 on my husband’s rezidiv

We have an appointment with the clinic in Heidelberg for a information on the 8th of Dezember. We hope for the carbon treatment, however, the doctor stated that not everybody gets into this program. We will see what the Oncologist says, he was surprised that my husband waited so long. My husband was monitored by the urologist in Landstuhl Medical Center, he was not concerned until the PSA went to 0,5. The radiation treatment had to wait because weitere two months in America. I will inform you accordingly if you are interested what Heidelberg wants to do. As mentioned in my earlier post, my husband had his prostate removed five years ago.

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Thank you for posting this. I would be very interested in what treatments they suggest. Best of luck to you both.

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We are also curious, Germany has apparently different procedures, I will post it

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NickJoy in reply toGrommi

Thank you.

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Tall_Allen

I'm interested in carbon ion for salvage - do they mix it with X-rays?

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Grommi

We will certainly find out on the 8th of December, I found a little excerpt on it, but is not current.

There are currently no guidelines for prescribing and reporting radiation therapy (RT) with ion beams. In this paper an overview over some technical aspects and their implication on ion RT are reported. This includes a discussion of the difference in the treatment planning systems currently used for active and passive beam shaping systems, aspects of patient positioning and target definition and dose prescription. Special emphasis is put on the questions arising from the use of the beam scanning methods in combination with biological treatment plan optimization, which is used in the German heavy ion therapy facility at GSI and will also be introduced at the hospital based facility in Heidelberg. Furthermore, the Heidelberg approach for the clinical dose prescription is compared with the methods developed at HIMAC in Chiba, Japan.

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slpdvmmd

Good luck my experience there was positive

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Grommi

thank you

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