ProstRcision a Salvage Treatment.

 From the book:
“The Best Options for Diagnosing & Treating Prostate Cancer”
by James Lewis, Jr. Ph.D. Survivor and Author

Since many men treated for prostate cancer with other treatment methods (radical prostatectomy cryosurgery, and other forms of radiation) are not cured, prostRcision had been used at RCOG to try to cure them.

In particular, prostRcision has been used in the treatment of men who are not cured by radical prostatectomy. It is very difficult to do a seed implant following a radical prostatectomy because the prostate is no longer present. Seeds are placed in the scar tissue where the prostate gland used to be, but this is a very highly specialized implant technique because the anatomy is changed following prostatectomy. the cure rates in this procedure are very promising.

Additionally, prostRcision has been used for cryosurgery failures, and failures after radiation. Again, because patients have already received a lot o radiation to the rectum and bladder, prosRcision under these circumstances is difficult to perform but can be performed successfully.

One of the men living in the Hope Village Apartments at the time Elsie and I were there was being treated for a failed radical prostatectomy. He had had surgery in 1997and his cancer had returned. His treatment before coming to RCOG was hormones. He was having a great deal of problems with the side effects of the hormone treatment and had to do something else. He told me that the radiation oncologist implanted seeds where his prostate use to be and he was taking the same radiation treatments that I was taking. He said that at that time he was patient number 100 to be treated in this manner.

Nelson Boudreaux