Introduction

Hi, everyone.

I am a 65 year old and was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer back on October 24th. I'll offer a little background on my case. I had experienced, about a year an a few months ago, a puzzling PSA increse and decrease. I had held steady at about 2.4 for a long while, when it suddenly jumped to 5.8. A subsequent retest showed it back at 2.4. The next test, 3 months later had me back up at 5.8. This went on for 2 more rounds and I finally went to a Urologist. Now, mind you, all of the PSA tests I am referencing were the 4K tests which also measure your free PSA and estimate the % chance they will find cancer upon biopsy. Even with the higher PSA readings, my % chance of finding cancer upon biopsy was "low risk", less than 5% on every one. 

The Urologist did a DRE and found it completely normal, not even any detectable BPH. I had ZERO symptoms of any Prostate issues. I have no cancer in my family and have had 6 close blood relatives (3 grandparents,mother and 2 aunts) all live well into their 90's. I've been an athlete all my life and still work out 5 days per week vigorously and have followed a pretty strict diet for the past 20 years. Nothing would have indicated cancer.

But, my Urologist ordered up a T3 MRI, which showed 3 leasions, 2 at PIRADS 3 and one at PIRADS 4. That was in late August.

Fusion Biopsy in October showed 3 out of 12 cores with cancer, two at Gleason 6 and one at Gleason 7 (3+4). Prostate volume just a tick over normal at 33.

Kind of a shock, but I always expect the worst, so if less happens I'm relieveed, so I set about to gather as much info as I could and make an informed decision as to treatment. Even though subsequent Genomic testing of my samples showed  very low "intermediate" risk, I didn't want to play around with Active Surveillance along with those 4's hanging around in there.

Surgery was not an option I was OK with. After reading about the possible side effects and their endurance, I opted to look into Cyberknife. I live out here on Long Island, N.Y., and one of the very best centers and practitioners (NYU-Langone Winthrop Hospital in Mineola and Dr. Haas) is about an hour away. I have decided to go with that as my treatment option.

Fiducial markers will be placed on Feb 13th, MRI/CT scan/Body mold done February 26 and treatment March 30-April 3.

So, I am specifically looking for info from people who are or have already undergone Cyberknife treatment. I've been in other groups where there are discussions that are not compartmentalized, and often those devolve into "My treatment is better than yours" nonsense, so this seems, by dividing up discussions, to be preferable. I also realize that everyone is different and any info I or anyone else shares is purely anecdotal and needs to be taken as such.

I hope to gain some insight into what to expect and also, once I begin my own journey, hopefully offer some insight to others. Thanks for accepting me.