I posted an update. After my visit today with the surgeon to get the pathology results and deal with online BS with the Spanish government, I tried to post again here after I found "here," but they tell me I already posted somewhere else. It's okay, I needed raisins with the oatmeal that is now my brain.
They found a cancer tumor in the prostate gland that was morcellated. Now, it didn't show up on the MRI months prior to HoLEP. They clocked it at a Gleason score of T1a for a 0.5 mm tumor undetectable from imaging post-prostatectomy. The prognosis isn't grim, it's a PSA 4 months from today to determine if any spread to the prostate capsule. If it has, or does, then the PSA will register an antigen number. Right now, as I understand it, it should be 0.0 because there's no prostate, right? What I'm wondering is how the hell do they know where the tumor was after it was morcellated? Anyway, that's the scoop. No hopes or expectations, it is what it is, without any concrete info might as well get my mental constitution back so I can get out of the 1.5 year protracted shock and start life anew.
I suspected something was there, I was surprised it was that small.
You bet I can believe you can get prostate cancer without a prostate. The surgeon mentioned that out of my X number of gram-size prostate that there was a 0.5 millimeter tumor, I wondered how if it was morcellated they knew where it was and if the process or morcellating it didn't break it up to smaller pieces. It was the prostate they analyzed, it wasn't the outside.
Even if it didn't show up on an MRI, that doesn't mean that a part of it's cells couldn't run through my vascular system and hang out at a local organ.
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My understanding of prostate cancer is it is detected or located on the outside of the capsule. Not inside the capsule where the Holep was performed.
Believe it or not you can get prostate cancer without a prostate
If it is small enough that they had an issue with detecting it. I would hope that it could be taken care of fairly easy.
Healthy liver reduces chances of cancer. That's the takeaway I got from this video.
https://youtu.be/L2gXeyAj7losi=lDMPX93CGNwd7TBp
You bet I can believe you can get prostate cancer without a prostate. The surgeon mentioned that out of my X number of gram-size prostate that there was a 0.5 millimeter tumor, I wondered how if it was morcellated they knew where it was and if the process or morcellating it didn't break it up to smaller pieces. It was the prostate they analyzed, it wasn't the outside.
Even if it didn't show up on an MRI, that doesn't mean that a part of it's cells couldn't run through my vascular system and hang out at a local organ.
So, they didn't Discover it until after the procedure.
Have they proposed any additional procedures to ensure it doesn't spread?
Do they think they got all of it with the Holep ?