How long does it take for prostate cancer to recur after radiotherapy

We know that cancer is an incurable disease, and prostate cancer is a dangerous disease. Because early symptoms are difficult to detect, most people with prostate cancer are diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. There are many ways to treat prostate cancer, but the symptoms in the late stage are more complicated and may have metastasized, so recovery is not an easy task. Radiotherapy is required. So how long does it take for prostate cancer to recur after radiotherapy?

There is no exact time for prostate cancer to recur after radiotherapy. It depends on the care and physical fitness of the prostate cancer patient after radiotherapy. Prostate cancer recurrence after radiotherapy includes biochemical recurrence, clinical local recurrence and distant metastasis. Biochemical recurrence is a precursor to clinical local recurrence and distant metastasis of tumor progression.
After appropriate diagnostic evaluation, patients with biochemical recurrence can choose to wait for observation and treatment or other appropriate treatment methods according to different patients. Patients with local recurrence can choose salvage therapy, endocrine therapy, etc. Patients with distant metastasis can only choose endocrine therapy.