@pesquallie

Understand where you’re coming from, especially for physicians who are only willing to fit their patients to their own view of PCa care (which may well be only a strict subset of standard of care protocol).

A believe a good physician makes a determination of their patient’s level of anxiety and risk tolerance and fits their PCa care to their patient’s bent.

In my case, I was immediately upfront with my first urologist…I was much more concerned with the short term risk of negative treatment side effects than the longer term risk of untreated low risk PCa.

I also fully understand that others may completely disagree with my POV, which is absolutely fine with me.

If I was concerned about what may even be the “majority consensus”, I would have never been involved with making 30 patents.

I also fully understand the person who simply can’t live with a cancer that may be growing within them and whose only question is what treatment to choose and can I get it done next week.

I think the thoughtful physician can accommodate the entire spectrum of folks…from those with a hard core AS mindset to the man who wants every reasonable treatment implemented immediately.

The patient, whether consciously or unconsciously, determines the approach the thoughtful physician will recommend or mutually agree to employ.

The real question is where to find such a thoughtful physician, who’s fully in tune with your particular bent.