Would you ever discourage salvage prostate XRT given a patient's lower urinary tract symptoms?

If the patient has post-op obstructive symptoms, it's possible the patient may have a bladder neck contracture. They might benefit from a urologic evaluation with cystoscopy which might address the issue. I would try to have that done prior to salvage RT. It is conceivably possible that there also c...

My short answer to the main question is no - if the patient has recurrent cancer, he should be offered the chance for cure. However, the patient also needs to be fully informed of the likely acute and potential long-term side effects of such treatment. Continence continues to recover after PORT but ...