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@chippydoo, yeah, Emily Couric Cancer Center, UVA. I think I made a good choice. The reason I say up and coming was because they were upgraded to a NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center at about the time I was narrowing my choices. VCU’s Massey also has that distinction. For me, it made sense, and I love Charlottesville from our time in a little AirBnB during my 33 radiation treatments. My Urology Oncologist surgeon was trained on DaVinci at Johns Hopkins before coming to UVA Health. I asked all the questions about experience with the DaVinci and felt very comfortable. I could have chosen Georgetown, or VCU, or Hopkins. We live in Fredericksburg.
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@makemyday1 I went to Va. Urology and second opinion at Massey. If go BCR again I will either go to VCU or any number of the NCCN cancer centers in our region. NIH is geared a little differently than NCCN with NIH towards surgery and NCCN towards standardization of treatment through network collaboration. Thinking back, my doctor who has done a couple of thousand DaVinci procedures touted the nerve sparing surgery. 3 years later and post BCR, adt and radiation I would rather have had wider margins taken. I really couldn't care less about sex at this point in my life especially if it comes down to dealing with cancer or sex.