Option #2 visit - the Radiation Oncologist

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  • Evagirl
    Evagirl Member Posts: 60
    #22
    142 said:

    Radiation
    I visited the urologist - after ugly biopsy results & the like, he sent me to a Rad. Oncologist for a second opinion. She was all upbeat & positive, I would do great. I asked for the success rate for my numbers - she answered 70%, and we could use hormone therapy after that (for the rest of my life!). I was in immediate shock. 70%. That means she fails 30% of the time, at $45,000 a crack. I would be unemployed if I failed 30% of the time.
    Not for me. We cut the little bugger out.
    My post-op numbers are bad enough that I'll be back for radiation as a backup, but I know more than I ever could have without the surgery, because there was a proper pathology report.

    In my line of work we are
    In my line of work we are allowed less than 1 percent error~~~

    government believe it or not, but the "peon's) in government.
  • Evagirl
    Evagirl Member Posts: 60
    #23
    lewvino said:

    Keep asking those questions!
    Keep asking those questions! That is how you will enventually know what is right for you and your husband for treatment. I visited a seed impact Doc...when we got down to it with my gleason he only gave me a 60% chance of being cancer free in 10 years following his treatment.
    For me surgery gave me a better chance.

    Larry

    Larry , that is
    Larry , that is interesting...

    Yes I have already learned so much here...after only 1 day....I am going
    to ask the hard questions of every doctor that we visit...the main one being:

    "IN MY SITUATION AND WITH MY SCORES, WHAT ARE MY CHANCES OF BEING CANCER FREE IN 5 YEARS AND IN 10 YEARS, IF I CHOSE YOUR TREATMENT?????

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