Experiences with

Salvage therapy

hello all. Well my last two ( three month) PSA tests were 0.10 and MO. And RO. Recommend somewhat early salvage radiation treatment. A question I would like some input on is should I look into proton therapy over IMRT. I would need to travel to Fred hutch or Salt Lake City as I live in Reno Nv. Just

If we end up going down that road here is a recent paper on it. https://www.auajournals.org/doi/10.1097/JU.0000000000003890 (Post RT) Post RP https://www.auajournals.org/doi/10.1097/JU.0000000000003892 https://www.auajournals.org/doi/10.1097/JU.0000000000003891

https://www.auanet.org/guidelines-and-quality/guidelines/salvage-therapy-for-prostate-cancer Not surprising. I think they should recommend adjuvant ADT at a PSA≥0.35 instead of ≥0.7 because I think patients are hoping for curative SRT and not just equivalent survival.

We would seriously consider surgery if there was even a modest chance it could mean he didn't need the hormone therapy/salvage radiation, just haven't seen even one story that makes it seem remotely likely.

After having RP and salvage radio therapy I was given the all clear last year. Since then my PSA started to increase, doubling every six months, it is now 0.5 and have had a PET scan which showed something on my left rib and smaller areas of concern on shoulder blade and lung.

(2) Are the side effects of salvage radiation therapy the same as if radiation was the initial treatment option? (3) What is the SOC for salvage hormone therapy (that is combined with salvage radiation) after RP? How long do you need to take hormones for?

I underwent 35 sessions (70 Gy) of IMRT salvage radiation therapy (SRT) to my prostate bed only in July and August 2022. Now, 27 months after the radiation ended, I am seeing traces of blood in my stools about 10% of the time. There were a couple of instances where the spots were more noticeable.

ART= adjuvant radiation therapy, within 6 months after radical prostatectomy (RP) early SRT= salvage radiation therapy, after PSA ≥ 0.1ng/ml or 3 consecutive rises. Median was 0.2 ng/ml. Median 1 ½ years after RP.

I have put off having salvage radiation therapy for over six-years now. But my Post- RP (August 2018) PSA level has doubled from 0.09 in June '23 to 0.19 in June '24, and doubled again to 0.40 in December 2024.

I had a radical prostatectomy in 2021 followed by salvage radio therapy. My psa levels have been rising slowly since then and I wondered if there was any advice as to what it might mean and if there is anything I should be doing at this point?

I had physician appointment today for possible hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) 40 treatments. I had salvage IMRT to bed and pelvic lymph nodes 8/2022.

His MO wanted to see the third month's results in order to consider salvage radiation therapy. Luckily, third month's result came in at 0.012. Is it normal for PSA to fluctuate that much, from 0.006 to 0.029, then 0.012? Could this be a lab error? All tests were done at the same lab.

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