@surftohealth88
You are very right until they get in there and see things nothing is guaranteed regardless of the surgeon and I think most accept that. If cancer has spread to the bladder neck or elsewhere and was not foreseen their is not alot more can be done. Although everything including PET seemed to indicate mine was in the capsule and most surgeons remove the prostate and cut their margins, close up and send everything to pathology, fortunately for me my Surgeon is one of the few that holds surgery and sends the tissue immediately to Pathology for frozen analysis and inking for positive margin check and although mine was supposed to be negative it wasn’t and he started more cutting and I received the negative margin which was so important since it turned out I had cribriform. Just imagine how many patients have been told they have positive margin at the post surgical appointment when it might and I say might have been possible for the surgeon to get them negative margin if they had frozen analysis immediately done. Next month I have my 24 month PSA check and pray for my lab a continued <.04 undetectable. It does really boil down in many ways to choosing the best surgeon for handling the unexpected that can be handled when you have the best surgeon. I know that big prostates can be challenging so your husband was fortunate with his choice of surgeon.