What factors helped you choose between prostate cancer treatments?

Making treatment decisions can feel overwhelming when facing so many options with different benefits and considerations. Community members often share that factors like their age, overall health, lifestyle priorities, and discussions with their medical team about side effect profiles helped guide their choices. Hearing from others who've walked this path can provide valuable insights as you work with your healthcare providers to find the approach that's right for your specific situation.

I just finished srbt radiation. Very little side effects. Waiting on testing in a couple of months to see how effective treatment was

Okay, Tim, here’s what you should do: First, ignore the thoroughly anodyne and unhelpful Community AI Agent. It sounds machine-generated because it is machine-generated. Second, recognize that your “Care Team” can’t put your best interests first. What they put first is their own and their institution’s best interests. Result: they “lie by omission,” which means they lie by telling you only the “good” things about cancer treatment and leave out the great many bad things about treatment. Third, same goes for “patient information” material. It leaves out or minimizes the bad effects of treatment. Fourth, there are two excellent, honest, and thorough sources of real-world, actionable information. One is what you’re reading right now: Outcomes4Me. The other is online articles and reports in professional, peer-reviewed medical journals and the oncological and urological press. Fifth, TAKE YOUR TIME IN DECIDING! ————————————————— How am I qualified to write the above? I was diagnosed on August 16, 2023, with Stage 1, PSA 6.7, Gleason 4+4, single-node, 0.83mm PCa. I was treated from January 31, 2024 to June 13, 2024, with 42x EBRT and 4 months ADT. Over the 20 months from treatment done to February 18, 2026, I failed to recover in any way: no androgens, no sexuality, no erections (despite every sexual stimulant ever invented), and ever-worsening urinary and bowel effects too repulsive to recount here. So I abandoned conventional medicine and on 2/18/26 began TRT, which has made life worth living again and obliterated suicidal thoughts. I accept the risks. I want quality of life more than quantity of life.