Radiation Therapy Side Effects for Prostate Cancer Patients 

Hello Milton. I went through radical prostate surgery, followed by 40 treatments of radiation at 65 years old. I'm 74 now. It's been a difficult road, but with support of my wife I have endured through every issue. Yes, I still miss the intimacy, but that is not saying you will suffer the same problems. Stay positive!

@@jimlong5983 Hello Jim. Sorry to hear of all the things you've gone through . I hope things will turn out good for you. Your wife is a hero , standing there with you through all your trials. I hope I'm strong and able to tolerate whatever comes my way. my faith in God will surely help me in this very dangerous episode of my life . I will keep you in my prayers .

Kev , could you give us an update on your father's condition . Is he doing well a year after radiation .

@@miltonsoto5043 hello sir yes he is doing excellent thankyou very much for your concern bless yiu

Marina , how did the doctor feel about his refusal to receive radiation treatment ? And how old is your husband. I'm about to start radiation in about 15 days and am scared of the after effects of radiation . I'm 75 years old and somewhat skeptical . ???

smart man.

Bad idea. Not everyone and their cancer is the same. Refusing radiation is not necessarily wise.

U can use pentosan polysulfate cap 100mg thrice a day empty stomach for 6months.

I guess you had a recurrence after RP, it seems like quite a bit of fellas have a recurrence because it's microbial and end up getting salvage radiation anyway....what a tough decision

@Jim Long are your symptoms of radiation cystitis only urinary? Do you have proctitis also? Gary R

Jim l hope you're doing better now. Please keep letting us know how you feel lately .🙏🙏🙏

Update on my situation. 6 weeks ago, the surgeon conducted an outpatient procedure to remove some of the scar tissue at the entrance of my bladder. I am scheduled for another visit to scope the urethra and bladder. If nothing looks worse, I will undergo urinary implant consisting of a 3 part device that will function as an artificial sphincter at the bladder entrance. In the meantime, I have had to resort to a clamp. Thank you for all those who offered input!

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iRon Tyson Is he still alive?

Recently I finished 25 sessions and then had a brachytherapy. I will have to have a cat scan done in 4 weeks to see what the situation is. I had 66 seeds I planted.

@iRon Tyson how is your father now?

James how are you?

a simple increase in prostate size has never been considered cancer.

Hi Jeff. I was really 50/50 over surgery but went for radiation. I probably think that was the better option for me. I believe that the outcomes are very similar. Downside for me with the radiotherapy is you are on these testosterone blockers for around year after radiation. The make you chubby and tired, you get a "Manopause", hot sweats, unable to sleep., etc. In contrast, my upstairs neighbour had the surgery over 10 years ago and is adamant he made the right decision. I think the radiation therapy is improving all the time too,

@@alanhynd7886 I have a friend who is 75 who had a higher psa had rad. had no leakage after and no anti test. meds. doing ok now. I am still leaking like a siv. 3 years after. so I will need that clap if I want to be somewhat normal again but my doc said it may stop leaking but it never did. good luck

@@alanhynd7886 BTW my psa was 15.7 and gleason was 5+3 for an 8

R McGee If the malignancy is confined to the gland, you have a wealth of options and all have good outcomes. I was in the same situation and went with radiation because its side effects tend to be less severe than those from surgery. But whichever option you chose, be sure your specialist who will be carrying out the treatment has LOTS of experience and an excellent track record. Good luck!

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iRon Tyson Sorry, I am not qualified to make distinctions or recommendations. You'll find plenty of reputable sources on the web.

Rosy McGee go see a urologist that does a Mir BEFORE having a biopsy of the prostate. The biopsy is slightly uncomfortable, the radiation does not hurt, implanting markers also is slightly uncomfortable and the brachytherapy you are put asleep and you are in a little pain. I had all of this done but none of them is as painful as knee replacements which I had. Having the Mir done helps spot the location of the cancer and not having it done before the biopsy is like going on a fishing expedition and not knowing if your going to hit the right spots. I realize that I am writing about your husband.

Please look at Proton Radiation which has had very good success without the side effects from ordinary radiation. I had this procedure done at the University of Florida in Jacksonville eleven years ago in 2008, and have had no side effects to date, and my PSA has dropped to near zero. I will post the name of the Australian journal that is an excellent publication full of true stories as soon as I find it.

JeevesReturns I never had any, just going to the bathroom a lot to pee.

I get nausea when I get mine

No nausea at all. Just tiredness.

Never had nausea with my 45 radiation treatments. My side effects were fatigue about half way through treatment. The treatments themselves were really no more side effects than a CAT Scan.

eat apricot kernels it has b-17 vitamin will kill all cancers research it dont do chemo, radiation or surgery they dont work.

B. Jostes You have my sympathy. Have you considered moving to a civilized country? Another option: Get some counseling from The Cancer Society or other non-profit cancer resource.

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DONT DO ANY BIOPSY--NOT NECESSARY!

Move to Massachusetts.

This video is 6 years old. Was Proton Beam studied back then *?*

Yes, in the U.S. it has been used for better than 10 years, and as I can attest it works quite well. I went to the Prostate Clinic at the University of Florida, Jacksonville, and I've had no side effects from this treatment so far. My story is written up in a Prostate Cancer newsletter the name of which I cannot remember, but it is an Australian journal. My PSA was about 12 or 14 when I began treatments and is now down near 0. Can someone please tell me the name of that Australian medical journal dedicated to prostate cancer?

@@charlescoryn9614 What was your Gleason score when you started proton therapy? What side effects short term and long term? Did you take hormones at the same time? Thank you.

@@artmaltman ....... Hello Art, I hope I can be of some help to you, I've had a very good experience myself, but my failing memory is now the problem. I think my Gleason score was in the 7-8 range and heading upward more and more rapidly when I applied to the Univ of Florida at Jacksonville for the new Proton Radiation program. My father had died of prostate cancer so I started some research. I had a chart that I made starting in 1995 with my PSA at 1.2 and rising slowly over the years until 2006-2007 when it began an upward spike, taking it to above 10, when I began to get more tests done. Following the proton radiation my PSA fell rapidly until it reached a low of 0.09 in 3/14, so it's been 13 years now and no complications. I remember reading Bob Marckini's excellent book "You Can Beat Prostate Cancer", which I'll admit went a long way towards giving me more hope. I've had no problems since. For a number of years I wrote a regular yearly update for another prostate cancer newsletter from overseas somewhere, seems it was Switzerland or Australia, I wish I could remember, I'll keep looking for it. I did not take any hormones or other medications concurrently. And the side effects were minimal I remember, some minor headaches and appetite problems which cleared up shortly after treatment ended were about all. Yes, I very strongly recommend looking into Proton Radiation. Best wishes to you.......

@@charlescoryn9614 did you do full ablation?

Dan Gal, what is your source for this?

Any respectable studies backing that up?

So all I have to do is change my diet and it will cure my stage 3 carcinoma? Tell me more!!

Such a dumb shit.

I would certainly research this more thoroughly........ Once a cancer escapes prostate containment, as happened to my father, it reeks havoc all over the body. It becomes a very painful way to go........

​@@suburban404