My final treatment

Today, Tuesday Feb 19 is my final treatment!  I get to ring the bell after this.

Last Friday I met with the radiation oncologist.  I asked her about how we will screen going forward and how, God forbid, the cancer might show up in the future.  She said that it rarely comes back in the area that was radiated.  If it shows up it will likely show up somewhere else in the body.  We screen for it using a PSA blood test, which is a good screening tool since anything greater than zero means that the cancer is back.  How they would treat it would depend upon where it is and if they can determine where it is.  Unfortunately, the prostate cancer can jump to pretty much anywhere else in the body.  Hormone therapy would likely be a tool since it will impact the prostate cancer wherever it might be.  But, hopefully, this is it and I won't need additional treatments.