Hello,

I would suggest you research a procedure called TULSA PRO. It’s a one day out patient procedure that I found much more appealing than radiation or surgery. I was 69 when diagnosed with prostate cancer in October last year. My numbers were PSA 9.6, Gleason 7 (4+3), biopsy revealed 17 out of 20 samples had cancer, cribform was present and the cancer had started pushing against my bladder. The one thing that saved me ways the cancer was still within the prostate. With the TULSA PRO procedure the prostate capsule must still be intact.

My first urologist suggested I go the radiation route, but thought surgery would be an option as well. I started down the radiation route by taking Orgovyx to reduce my testosterone levels as cancer feeds off of testosterone. Two weeks before I was scheduled to have the gold markers placed in my prostate for radiation treatments I learned about TULSA PRO.

I was fortunate that a rather close hospital in St. Louis MO (St. Louis University/SSM) had a doctor (Dr. Sameer Siddiqui, Chief of Surgery, Associate Professor, and Chief of Urology) who performed this procedure. My procedure was done on 23 April, with total time in hospital of about 6 hours (most of which was spent pre and post procedure) and sent home with a catheter. The catheter stayed in for about 14 days.

Everyone is different, but since my procedure I am dealing with incontinence and ED. The incontinence is improving and I expect the ED will resolve itself eventually. I had my 3 month PSA test on 23 July and the result was less than 0.1. I posted my results in another portion of this forum and someone asked if I had to do it all over again would I make the same decision. My response was a resounding YES. The radiation route would have taken 9 weeks with 45 treatments and required me to take Orgovyx for two years with who knows what side effects from the radiation.

Hope this helps.