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What is the maximum radiation dose you can receive treating prostate cancer before it significantly increases new cancer risk?

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Keep thinking that if you get radiation as first treatment and then mets occur and you have to get more salvage radiation... how much radiation can the body take? When does it get risky?

If you get surgery, you are still not radiated, so you have radiation in your arsenal.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

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Good question. I'd like the answer as well.

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news.mit.edu/1994/safe-0105

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