Guest guest Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 Ok, we all know that are urologists are surgeons. When going to the next step we need to switch to an oncologist, either radiation or medical. My question to the group is who should be my primary doctor leading the way now? Some background Dx’d just about a year ago with an aggressive Gleason 9 cancer. 6 months of neo-adjunct hormone therapy was recommended before surgery. Pathology from the surgery (RALP) resulted in lots of positive margins. Every doctor I conferred with agreed that radiation would be next as soon as I had healed from surgery. Now that I have completed my IMRT, my radiation oncologist wants to keep me on hormones (Lupron) for another year or two to give the radiation treatments a chance to do their thing. I am not crazy about it but if that is what I need to do I can live with it. I have been on hormones for a year already. Any way at the moment my urologist is administering my Lupron at the recommendation of the radiation oncologist. Who should I consider to be the point person now? Should I touch base with the medical oncologist I talked with earlier? Should I keep ping ponging between the radiation oncologist and the urologist? Maybe just consider the radiation oncologist my primary since he was the last one to work on me and he will be doing follow ups. Just a little confused about the next steps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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