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Prostate Cancer
Archives for February 2007
Discussion List
Newly Diagosed In Louisville, Ky
I have just been diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. My Gleason is 6(3+3) and my PSA is 1. One of the options I'm considering is the Robotic/DaVinci surgery to be performed by my Urologist, Dr. Nick Meiers at Norton Hospital in Louisville. Has anyone had any experience either with Dr. Meiers or the DaVinci at Norton?
Ultrasensitive PSA levels post surgery
Posted in November: My husband had a RP in June and results of his PSA were 0.02 then 0.00 3 months ago. Waited the 3 months and it is at 0.04 today. The doctor recommended waiting 2 weeks and repeating the PSA and if it is still up moving on to radiation (5 weeks). Why the wait? I mean if it is up why would 2 weeks make a…
newly diagnosed- which way do we go?
I'm 54 and have been diagnosed with early stage cancer. PSA is 3.7, Gleason score of 6 with one of eight biopsy samples having 26% cancer cells. My urologist referred me to Dr. Louis Potters at NY Prostate Institute for seed implant radiation. I am not a fan of surgury(ie RP) but am interested in hearing thought process of…
Results
On February 20th my father had the robtic surgery done by doctor Tewari. It seemed fairly quick. We arrived at the hospital at around 10:30am and the surgeory was completed by 12:20. During the surgery we received information from a nurse that the surgery was going excellent. by 2:00pm we were able to visit my father in…
biopsy/surgery
What seems to be the normal time from biopsy to surgery
Penile Implant
Anyone have experience with a penile implant for ED problems?
Robotic vs other options - input please
Going through the literature, I've been debating brachytherapy vs RP. At first glance, brachy appears to have less side effects esp re. incontinence and sex. However it looks like the incontinence and even the sex issue is addressed by Robotic RP (eg with DaVinci system) which provides the surgeon with very precise…