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Am scheduled for RP in May here locally. Checked around, nearest place for Tulsa Pro is 400 miles one way trip. Been a real pain, was going to KUMC (150 mile round trip) a national recognize Cancer Center, but had lots of problems and no communications hardly at all. Been messing with them since late December. Got all my testing done there. Wednesday spent 40 minutes on phone with KUMC, transfered 7 times and question still not answered.. Nurse navigator doesn't respond to questions. Anyway, I tried to get them to schedule PR and after several weeks and nothing getting done, I just scheduled it with a local person here who's done lots of DaVinci robotic surgeries and a couple of thousand PR. He actually did Urolift on me about 5 years ago so I do know him.
Not sure I want to start all over with a place 400 miles away and might have to stay several weeks. But might try to call and see what the process would be, but at the point of being super frustrated and stressed about the whole process.
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@diverjer I started this thread over a year ago. My PSA level went up after full ablation the Tulsa Procedure, but my last PSA level was lower. I had recent MRI and PSMA Petscan, the MRI showed nothing, I get the PSMA results soon, hopefully, tomorrow. I'm writing here because if I had to do it over I would absolutely have the Tulsa procedure again and Surgery would be my last choice. If I had to travel 400 miles, I would do it. It's done in one day. When I had it done, I "only" drove 100 miles, but that was in LA, so it felt like 400 miles. I stayed at an Airbnb the night before and the night after. Look up potential side effects for every procedure you are considering. Look at recovery times. Look at how many radiation appointments you'll need to attend if you go that route. If you're a candidate for Tulsa, I'd say go for it.