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I have just finished a course of radiation for recurrent PC 16 years after initial diagnosis. It is the first treatment since my 2008 surgery.
In the waiting area each day I met a variety of people in various stages of either initial or secondary treatment. Their recurrence ranged from 10 years to 5 months. There seemed no rhyme or reason to their path. At 62, I was in the younger of the crowd with the top range at 94.
It isn’t a matter of “how long” anymore, it is a matter of what to do to make life improvements and monitoring to know what you want to do when it does.
