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What Causes Leg Pain Post Radiation Therapy For Prostate Cancer?

Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2015

Question: had cyberknife prostate radiation 18 months ago. I have developed severe pain in my leg in the groin area in my right leg. feels like bone pain. could this be damage to the bones from radiation? just went to the doctor for it two days ago. doctor thinks it is muscle inflammation. I'm no doctor but I don't think that is the problem. he put me on predizone for 7 days. then we'll go from there

Answered by Dr. Rakesh Madhyastha (15 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Prostatitis

Detailed Answer:
Hello

Thanks for the query

It is indeed hard to tell without examining you where the pain might be arising from however I had a patient with similar complaints post prostate radiation and this is how I went about it

1. Urine routine to see for pus cells
2. Examination of the prostate to look for tenderness
3. Total cpk is a good marker to look for muscle injury and inflammation of the muscle
4. Complete blood count to see for infection

I must add here that after ruling out all infection I did put my patient on steroids and he recovered well. It resolved because there was inflammation post radiation which responded well to steroids

I hope I was of help, if you have any further queries please get back to me

Regards

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