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Re: VMAT or Proton Therapy

Bruce:
In addition to the valuable feedback and good food for thought provided by both John and Jerry here's my two cents worth :

UFPTI, the PBRT institute nearest you, issued a press release in November of 2012 containing the following success-ratio statistic:
"Five year progression free survival rate of 99 percent in low-intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients."

For more data on PBRT outcomes (1) Google UFPTI (2) click on News and Information then (3) click on Research Portfolio.

Best wishes Don O.

Re: VMAT or Proton Therapy

Bruce,

"Five year progression free survival rate of 99 percent in low-intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients." This is also the result one gets with no treatment.

You should really be on Active Surveillance.

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