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Well I can offer a few words that may be encouraging. I dealt with my prostate cancer issue back in 2007. With surgery and then adjuvant radiation. About 2 years thereafter, during a checkup, I had a good exchange with my radiation oncologist, an experienced but younger person. I cannot recall what prompted this commentary, but my oncologist indicated that getting out of the prostate was the initial barrier to metastasis, but that current theory also leaned towards believing that cancer cells in the lymph or blood systems also had additional barriers to overcome before establishing themselves in other locations. We didn't look into any detail about the nature of those barriers, but the idea rang true to me. In short, getting out of the prostate does not suffice to create viability in other locations.
