I’d have to say my PCa treatment choice was daring. I looked at the Sloan Kettering prediction tool for prostate cancer and calculated my odds of recurrence for different treatments. The charts and doctors recommended surgery, drugs, and radiation to give me the best odds, about 75% chance of no recurrence. Surgery alone would have given me 70%. Unfortunately radiation brings with it many side effects as do drugs. I carefully weighed quality of life issues for all treatment. .
I decided to opt out of radiation and drugs and just have surgery gambling that I would be in the 70% group.
That was almost 6 years ago so I was right. Whew!