No, he probably has a bladder infection! Get him to the doc and have it
checked. It's easy pee in a cup. His brachytherapy was a year ago, it has
nothing to do with what he is experiencing now.
Bev

Diane,

   I had 120 seeds inserted August 2004.  I have had burning when I
urinate ever since.  My urologist puts me in the 5 percent that have this
long term side effect.  If your uncle has had this burning since the seeds
were placed, chances are he is in the 5 precent bracket.  Hopefully, my
burning will eventually reside.  Anybody else have this long term side
effect after brachytherapy?

Kram  

I think this is pretty common.  Not the rule but common enough.  

As others said, make sure that it's not an infection.  My uro checks
for that every 6 months.

I had seeds at the end of summer 2004, by Spring 2005, I was
sleeping through the night, off the flomax, and most of the symptoms
were gone.

Except that 20 months later, I still have some burning and stinging.
This isn't horrible and the flow is good.  I can stand 3, 4 feet
back from a urinal and pee into it.  

I've knocked the burning around with both docs and they suggest that
it's the radiation doing it's thing.  

Radiation doesn't "kill the cancer", it sets it up so that when the
cancerous cells divide, the offspring, the daughter cells, are not
viable.  This can happen months, years later.  

This long delayed die-off is what's happening.  Apparently this
happens at different times for different people but it's out a
year, 2 years in some cases.

And it's not a clearly defined event, it just happens on it's own
schedule.  

The dieing cells have to be cleaned up, so there's some cellular
debris, inflamation, and this might be related to the PSA bounce.  

This is also why the docs watch for bowel symptoms, bleeding,
urgency.  Usually nothing major occurs but they watch for it.

I'm at 20 months and so far, it's been easy.   I can't say it's been
a fabulous time but it's on the order of an inconvenience.  

Pee'ing is near perfect.  Erections are just "adequate" without
Vitamin-V.  Still producing about a quarter teaspoon of semen.  The
bugaboo is that I'm either a treatment failure or in a husky PSA
bounce, just clocked a 2.2, which is high.

This is still within range so we're watching this closely.

-C

It is EXTREMELY common, and in fact many are warned that it can last
for weeks or months.  I myself have had it for ten months, and it stems
from the hyoersensitivity of the dying nerves in the prostate to any
kind of pressure.