Recent research on prostate cancer has shown a greatly significant reduction in recurrence and improvement in survival and disease-free survival when patients were given local radiation after surgery, even if surgical margins were all negative. While this is of course NOT the same type of cancer, it does emphasize the point made by many in this forum, the risk of surgery mssing small centers of cancer cells.

While radiation is no walk in the park, most of the deleterious side effects go away or can be ameliorated -- read the OCF web site for insights into these. We did, applied the excellent recommendations from this and from folks on this forum, and Barry is doing very well only 2 1/2 weeks out from treatment.

Gail