@mikerbn
will keep in touch. Do you know if you are getting single port or multiple port?

@mikerbn

I faced the decision in January 2014. There were really two options then, surgery or brachytherapy.

I chose the former as it was "curative...!"

The surgeon was skilled and experienced, nerve sparing...

The pathology report was T2CNoMx

SV, ECE and margins negative...

GS 4+4, only 10% prostate involvement.

Side effects:

The catheter came out after a week, no incontinence.

Yes, initially erectile dysfunction but resolved itself over 6-12 months with daily 5 mg Cialis and "exercise...! Orgasms were dry and it took greater physical and mental stimulation to achieve erection and orgasms. Initially there was some urine leakage when orgasmining but they went away. Was there some length and girth reductions, yeah, I never "measured" before or after so that's a qualitative judgement.

After the first two weeks I was able to travel again and go back to the gym, albeit starting at lower weights when going resistance training. By a month I was pretty much back to "normal..." playing basketball, riding my bike...

What will your experience be? You don't know going in. In part the skill dnd experience of your surgeon may play a role, your health and physical conditioning may also factor in.

Will it be curative? Again, you don't know. There are monograms such as the ones MSKCC has that can "predict" the probability based on your clinical data. Mine was 30% probability of BCR, unfortunately, the nomogram was correct, BCR after 18 months.

Still, it's been 12 years since diagnosis, SRT, doublet and triplet therapy, here I am!

Three of those 12 years have been on treatment.

It's been a good 13 years.

Kevin