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Can anyone share their experience with ProACT (an AUS)?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 15 7:07pm | Replies (71)Comment receiving replies
It appears you are only nine months or a year past your prostatectomy.
Many people find that prostate cancer reoccurs two or three or four years after a prostatectomy. For me it was 3.5 years and there was no spread when I had surgery.
Ask the doctor that puts in the ProACT If it’s possible to put an AUS in if you have to get radiation in the future and the ProACT stops working. If that’s possible, then the ProACT would be a really good choice.
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@jeffmarc You are correct, only 9 months out and I was concerned that urologist would want to wait until the one year point before doing anything surgical to address incontinence. However, my incontinence was severe (complete) and PT and time had yielded zero improvements, not even the slightest. I think the reason surgeons generally like to wait for 12 months post RALP is they want to give the body a chance to recover continence on it's own. I am grateful that there has been no hesitation moving forward. According to the maker of ProAct it is very easy to remove. 16,000 of these have been done throughout the world, most in Europe where it has been approved quite a bit longer than in US.