Experiences with

Conformal radiotherapy

Took my last, hopefully, dose of pred 3 weeks ago. I live in Brasil, and see a good, reputable Immunologist. Since I have had various ailments over the past dozen years, my initial treatment and 'follow ups' were in UK, and usual tracking of GCA markers, VHS and CRP, were invariably higher than recommended

Hello everyone, It's currently Lymphoedema Awareness Week in the UK, and tomorrow is World Lymphoedema Day. We've put together information about lymphoedema, a condition that falls under the umbrella of Pelvic Radiation Disease (PRD), as radiotherapy is a known risk factor for its development. ▶️

It is my decision to make with my oncologist and I fully understand that but I am looking for views/suggestions from all the brainy people on this forum re my next move. My brief history is RP back in 2015 but re-occurence. I did prostate bed radiotherapy and 6 months worth of lupron in 2017 after PSA

Hello, I find myself, us family, in a new and bad situation for my father. Unfortunately, we find ourselves in a new and difficult period for us. We have reached the stage of Xtandi, Docetaxel and now, Abiraterone does doesn.t cope. Introduced 3 months ago, abiraterone allowed the PSA to grow again

Had a radical prostatectomy in March 2022. Gleason 7, left sided involvement only. Post op histopathology looked good-still Gleason 7 with mostly 3 with less than 10% 4, no extracapsular extension, no seminal vesicle involvement, clean regional nodes. Post op PSA dropped to 0. However, 6 months ago

As none of the pills worked in shrinking the cancer it just kept growing, so went for a mastectomy which was successful. Because of my heart condition had to stay the night in hospital, I had no pain in fact apart from a scar and a drain I wouldn't have known the op had been done. I had to have 5 sessions

Thanks to everyone that replied to my questions. I start tomorrow for the next 6 weeks of radiation therapy. Tried to keep busy today but my anxiety level is high. You replies have helped a bunch. Any words for my first day would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Rbsw1

So I'm starting my 28 treatments I'm hoping I made the right decision instead of surgery. I'm scared to death with this. Did anyone else feel this way. Also depressed about the cancer never thought this would happen.

Hi everyone sorry for my English, I'm Italian, I'm 63 years old. Cured prostate cancer in 2014 with brachytherapy. psa 2014 2.5 in 2018 nadir 0.22 in 2019 it rises to 2.3 2019 pet psma finds bone metastasis treated with radiotherapy. 2020 psa 0.5 2021 psa 0.08 2022 psa.0.04 2023 psa 0.02 then 0.04 2024

I have been dealing with recurring meningiomas since 3/2020 and have had many setbacks including multiple infections as well as recurring tumors. Long and short of it…I have undergone radiation therapy 5x/week x 6 weeks in 2022. I also did one round of true beam radiation surgery in November of 2023

After about 18 months on Firmagon combined with ADT (Zytiga, then Casodex, then Xtandi), my primary medical oncologist is recommending chemo/docetaxel to treat my bone mets. My advanced prostate cancer has multiple bone mets, but the recent PSMA Pet scan showed nothing in the lungs or vital organs.

Hello all. I am wondering if I could get some feedback from the group in reference to radiation therapy combined with Lupron. Without getting into too much detail, It came back after 22 years. Grade 1 Gleason 6. PSA was less than 0.1 until after the 10th year where it started to slowly rise. Went up

Hi everyone, I know that preparing for prostate cancer radiotherapy can be a stressful journey. I sincerely hope that this post does not offend anyone - please let me know if it does. We are working on developing a robotic system designed to make spacer placement safer, more precise, and free from

Normally I do not post much about imaging unless it's already at the theranostic stage, but in this case, being an Italian trial and research (which means that while you get the IV they will give you some pizza and a glass of wine) I have made an exception! Ok seriously, if it will work as it's supposed

Hi everyone has anyone had anyone had heart issues with radiation therapy for prostate cancer.

After two and half years post RP my PSA has increased from <0.1to 0.2. Now been referred to an oncologist (3 week min. wait ahead) to consider doing prostate bed radiotherapy. Been asking around about going private for a 68 Gallium PSMA PET-CT scan as the Urology dept say its [u]more likely than not

The study indicates that adding metastasis-directed therapy with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to standard systemic therapy for oligometastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) significantly improves oncologic outcomes. 100 patients with oligometastatic CRPC of whom 48 were randomly

Has anyone had a PRP injection in a joint for severe arthritis/pain? I currently have severe osteoarthritis (bone on bone) with significant pain in my right knee which completely limits my mobility and ability to exercise. I tried steroid injections, gel injections and low dose radiation therapy to

I've found that when i get rls and find the trigger point with my tsubo then rub the painful area with a roll on antiperspirant up and down my leg the sensation stops 🤔,with having peripheral N, I can get shocks from my feet to my ribs ect, so I googled electric skin and it mentions static electric

There's an interesting paper I came across at the ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) 2025 symposium that has just taken place. This was session 309 - Radical prostatectomy (RP) versus radiotherapy (RT) in high-risk prostate cancer (HR-PCa): Emulated randomized comparison with individual patient