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Testosterone Replacement Therapy after RALP
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 29 4:57am | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
With only one of 12 of your biopsy having cancer and a 3+3 you should not have had surgery. Your urologist must’ve been looking for some income. The standard now (and in 2020) is that you do not have surgery with a 3+3 you go to active surveillance and wait till it becomes more severe. 3+3 is not considered cancer you have to do anything about.
It’s a shame people don’t get a second opinion on this.
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yes. I agree. I did not use Mayo clinic. But I doubt it would have changed my mind. I was reluctant to answer jebo505 because the subject has come up a dozen times and I understand that I am not normal. Thats why I mentioned all my statistics which jebo5o5 did not. I would have made a different decision if I felt that I had a greater chance of it returning. I basically forced my Dr to remove it. His advice was to monitor. He felt at a later time their were better ways to approach it if we ever needed to. My PSA was not even elevated from normal. I watched my Dad die from it by waiting and treating. Sure he was 87 with other issues by then. It was a personal decision to be done with it. Hopefully that pays off. As for the outcome, I am incontinent and no erection. I had not counted on either. Hopefully increasing my TEST to the 700 range is not a stupid mistake as well. Despite my urologist telling me not to. I have switched care to Mayo. But we have not discussed my taking TRT.