@lyricw
Radiation’s side effects do occur a year or two after treatment while surgery side effects occur right after with incontinence and ED issues. And in some cases, neither of these treatments cause either of these problems. It’s a real crap shoot.

I think people get Surgery because they want to get it out and figure that’s the best way to eliminate the problem completely. Unfortunately, there are side effects and it doesn’t always get it out completely. In my case, my father had radiation and died from prostate cancer so I had surgery. He died when Lupron was the last drug. I have had many other drugs available, So I will live many more years than my father did with prostate cancer.

Researchers have found that radiation or surgery causes the exact same result in the long run. There are cases where aggressive cancer issues make one option or the other preferable.