Yes, the doctors you saw were all telling you that surgery was the answer. After attending weekly advanced prostate cancer meetings at Ancan.org we heard where surgery was recommended for people that it just didn’t make sense to do. They were either too old or their cancer had spread too much.

Not all urologists are the same. One of the doctors who comes to almost every meeting is in his 80s and his urologist kept telling him he was fine as his PSA kept rising. He ended up very high risk because his urologist didn’t pay attention to his results. Not all urologists are equal.

I ran a computer consulting business. I had no real backup. I really did go to the office of some of my clients four days after surgery. By a week after surgery, the only issue was the catheter, the bag for which I had in my pants leg. No one ever knew I had surgery. I was 62 at the time and I just didn’t have any pain from the surgery, so I went to work. I didn’t do any heavy lifting for a couple of weeks.