I looked into the other options, I talked to five doctors about the alternative treatments and asked each one: would you do it for yourself or a loved one and the answer was no in every instance. I think part of this is driven by my age and their thinking I would recover from the RALP while the other procedures were either still quite experimental or less effective or better suited for older patients.

Everyone's mileage varies and I can use this massive network of doctors at my fingertips and hope their advice is the best or I can do the same with the Internet. In the end I have to get this done and recommended quite soon, so spending months exploring options isn't a path I can take. The main reason I'm going RALP is that I have several fallback plans if the cancer returns, those fallbacks become fewer with other options.