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What treatment would you offer for a patient with prior primary prostate radiation, with a biochemical progression to PSA >1.0 and negative PSMA scan?

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Radiation Oncology · Stony Brook University School of Medicine
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I’m assuming the patient has already received a prostatectomy and received prostate bed radiation, with a rising PSA.

First, in terms of imaging, you may want to consider a contrasted pelvic MRI, which may reveal a small lesion in the prostate bed which may have been obscured by PET activity from t...

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Radiation Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
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Just to clarify - the patient had a localized prostate cancer (no history of prostatectomy), received definitive radiation, and now the PSA is > 1.0? And a PSMA PET/CT is negative.

Based on the timeframe you are describing from end of prostate radiation, this could be a PSA bounce and not recurrent ...

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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ADT with salvage prostate fossa RT most likely including nodal region.

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