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There is no connection between prostate cancer and bladder/colon cancer as far as I know. It is possible for prostate cancer to spread to other organs, including theoretically, bladder and colon, but with your clear margins that possibiity seems very low.
The only serious pssibility of PCa treatment resulting in further cancers is the radiotherapy treatments. The general medical view is that this will not happen, but there are some small studies and some anecdotal evidence that there might be a causal relationship.
Like most things about PCa there is little certainty - and that is mainly because the disease generally takes so long to develop that it is very difficult to study.
I asked the head of a Cancer Agency that question and basically he said what Terry said. Going forward you still have a chance of getting cancer just like everybody else and maybe it is slightly more if you've had radiation but they don't seem to see that with their patients.
