Radiation after Prostatectomy Guidelines

AUA Meeting Co-Chair Ian Thompson, MD talks to AUA TV about the importance and timing of the guidelines from the committee issued at the 2013 Meeting.

[shawnbeck]

Just had Prostatectomy 5 weeks ago. Go back to Surgeon on the 29th of September. Consultation and 6th week PSA blood test. Should go back to work on October 3 2022. Healing nicely. Some pain in left groin area. Where more was taken out do to cancer being near the outside edge. Sore after walking alot. Icing the left groin area. Looking forward to being cancer free. 5 on the aggressiveness scale. Gleason 4+3 and 4+4. Dr Bahlor and his team in Indianapolis I.U. Health cancer center did a outstanding job for me. Had bone scan and MRI before surgery. No metastatic area's at all. The key to Prostate Cancer catch it early! Get your PSA blood test now. It could just save your life. It did mine. Shawn.

[normandcharette]

All we find out is that there are guidelines. So what. No mention of the guidelines . Waste of time.

[Michael.Huxley]

please provide a link to the guidelines so that we can read then

[Wunderpus-photogenicus]

Dear Doctor: How about BCG?

How soon after a Robotic Assisted Radical Prostatectomy can I resume my maintenance BCG treatment for my NMIBC safely?

Thanks.

[eddiegardner]

Not much said about whether a patient should or shouldn’t have radiation after prostatectomy, only that they should “have a conversation with the doctor about it”. This is a sort of “metal discussion” about the existence of guidelines for urologists/oncologists; not very useful to a person looking for information about adjuvant radiation following radical prostatectomy, as the title suggests.

[robertmonroe]

Still wondering if IMRT (plus brachy) with wider beam margins than RP permits on surgical margins would cut way down on PC reoccurrence following initial ‘curative’ therapy.

(Understand one can subsequently do salvage/adjunct beam radiation to regional area following RP if necessary…especially in combo with PSMA scan)

[kimhutchins]

Over 50% of gleason scores are incorrect. How disturbing is that? Why not use an entire approach instead of just poisoning people??

[kenlewis]

I guess this is just old web BULLSHIT. No relavent date.