Paul Edwards Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 An article from today's Herald-Sun newspaper about stereotactic radiation at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne To read the article, click on this link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles (Chuck) Maack Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I would appreciate being forwarded any future information that comes out regarding this "one-time" procedure. At this point in time sounds a bit scary to me in the use of what is likely extremely high dose radiation if encompassing the entire prostatic bed and its periphery; UNLESS, for prostate cancer this will be considered more for direct targeted tiny beam radiation to a specific tumor location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Edwards Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 Hi Chuck Stereotactic radiation is not used for treatment of the entire prostatic bed and its periphery. I've been involved in a clinical trial of this treatment at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (more details in "My Story" elsewhere in these forums). About 18 months ago I had 3 mets (2 lymph nodes and 1 bone) treated. A recent PET Scan shows no evidence of cancer in these treated areas. The treatment involves multiple low dose beams which converge at the focal spot to produce a large aggregate dose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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