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Subject: Hdr Brachytherapy
Date: 03/27/2006
my husband is in the decision-making process about therapy. His gleason score is 6. staging,T1c. anybody have the HDR brachytherapy and how did it turn out?
Subject: Hdr Brachy
Date: 03/27/2006
Sorry to hear about your husbands cancer diagnosis. I too am dealing with the same exact scores of your husband. I am 46 yrs old. And this is my 2nd cancer diagnosis within 1 1/2 yrs. I had to have a total rhinectomy and palectomy July 04 to eliminate stage 3 squamous cell in my nasal septum. The surgery was radical but it saved my life.
Now I have to deal with PC. I have had two consultations with radiation oncologists who speak highly of brachytherapy. You just have to find a radiation Onc. who does a lot of them. There was just a long term study on PC therapies that just came out and brachytherpy has similar long term survival rates as any other radiation therapy. In fact I went to a City of Hope seminar last month and their view is that ALL of the PC therapies are having very similar long term survival rates because of the advances in technology. You most likely know that a surgeon will tell you to have surgery and a radiation Onc. will tell you to have radiation. But with a gleason score of 6 your husband is a good candidate for brachy.
Subject: Hdr Brachytherapy
Date: 04/02/2006
I had a Gleason score of 8 (5 + 3). Even though the "tumor board" wanted me to do radiation I "went for the fence" and had a radical. Even though they think they didn't get all the cancer. It turned out to be the best choice. I would not screw around, get the damn thing out of his body and then change the food to organic. Go to CancerRecovery.org and listen to the telecast (it was done last summer but you can still listen. Download the "notes first."
Good luck, you can beat this!
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