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Tulsa Pro - my initial treatment experience

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jun 9 8:54am | Replies (74)

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@paulcalif

I haven't had a procedure yet. I'm waiting on Decipher results. I am leaning toward the Tulsa Procedure, so seeing the posts here is very helpful. In consultation with the UCLA Doctor Raman, he said that early Tulsa Procedures were (rarely) sometimes not aggressive enough allowing the cancer to return. Some more recent procedures (not common) were a little too aggressive and caused side effects. Even though sometimes the results weren't perfect, he said that the odds were still better than other procedures. I'm hoping that my Decipher score shows slow growing, non-aggressive cancer that can wait to be treated until after the 1st. of the year when hopefully medicare will cover the procedure in whole. Please keep posting your Tulsa experiences as there are precious few online. Best of luck and thank you.

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I had another MRI at OU medical center and talked to Dr. Stratton. He told me I am a good candidate for the TULSA PRO procedure. I go back in 3 months for active surveillance. We are hoping to have TULSA approved for coverage the first of the year. I offered to get into my IRA to pay for it but the Dr. told me we have time to watch the cancer.