Hi Jayno8054, and welcome, though sorry you have to be here, your choice of treatment is for you and your team to decide, and a lot will depend on where exactly your cancer is, stage 3 and T3 are the same, and indicate your cancer has broken the shell of your prostate, though hopefully it has not reached anywhere else, but it does mean you should be starting treatment asap as your cancer has aggressive characteristics, you can have hormone therapy with radiotherapy and surgery, and I would be asking my team why your not on it already. Radiotherapy RT is usually done about 6 months after starting hormone therapy HT, this is to give HT time to shrink the tumour so giving RT a much better chance of being successful. Surgery can be done within a few weeks, You can have surgery followed later on with RT/HT, but not the other way round, both options have their plusses and minuses, and you should talk to both your surgeon and oncologist, before making a decision, as they often push for their own treatments, especially surgeons, best wishes
Hi Jayno8054, and welcome, though sorry you have to be here, your choice of treatment is for you and your team to decide, and a lot will depend on where exactly your cancer is, stage 3 and T3 are the same, and indicate your cancer has broken the shell of your prostate, though hopefully it has not reached anywhere else, but it does mean you should be starting treatment asap as your cancer has aggressive characteristics, you can have hormone therapy with radiotherapy and surgery, and I would be asking my team why your not on it already. Radiotherapy RT is usually done about 6 months after starting hormone therapy HT, this is to give HT time to shrink the tumour so giving RT a much better chance of being successful. Surgery can be done within a few weeks, You can have surgery followed later on with RT/HT, but not the other way round, both options have their plusses and minuses, and you should talk to both your surgeon and oncologist, before making a decision, as they often push for their own treatments, especially surgeons, best wishes
