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Does anyone have any tips for pre and post op TURP procedure?
Men's Health | Last Active: Jul 31 10:04am | Replies (9)Comment receiving replies
An alternative you might want to consider is do the PSMA PET scan. If there is cancer, hormone treatment should both kill the cancer and shrink the prostate (as well as the turmor). That will spare you the TURP. If there is no cancer, that means you have BPH. Then you can decide. Its a quality of life choice.
I hope that makes sense? I am just another layman trying make some sense of the whole thing.
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Appreciate the thought. I had not thought of that path and no one had suggested it. The Mayo Clinic’s recommendation was to treat the BPH issue without considering the cancer status because I am Gleason 6 with a very low chance of it having escaped the prostate given my Decipher score. Their rationale was that there is a 50/50 chance that I would not ever require treatment, and if I do, it should be 7-10 years in the future. If I could make it ten years without treatment that would be success for me. Appreciate the idea, however. Very interesting.