Video Q&A about Prostate Cancer

Hi @osgood1420,

You will be able to see the Q&A Live when it takes place on Monday, Sept. 25th. You can watch it during and after, at your convenience, right here on Connect.

I am having DaVinci robotic surgery to remove my prostate at Mayo Phoenix on Nov 22nd. Urinary incontinence is my greatest concern. What can I do to achieve the best outcomes? Also I have no clue as to the products I should purchase during the time I am incontinent.

On Tuesday I go for my PSA test one month after 28 rounds of radiation therapy. My doctor is hopeful that my PSA level will go from 4.7 to a
.05. Last March my biopsy found I was a 7 Gleason score and that the cancer has not spread outside of the prostate gland. My side effects were minimal during the radiation therapy, thanks to the SPaceOAR which was inserted prior to my radiation therapy. I don't know if I a out of the woods although what are the chances my cancer will come back.

@markbenson, Mayo Clinic has a huge data base of information on urinary incontinence after prostate surgery. Here’s an excerpt from a Mayo new release from May of 2015:

“Urinary incontinence is common after prostate surgery. When it’s severe enough the ARTIFICIAL SPHINCTER is the gold standard for dealing with it,” says Dr. Daniel Elliott, a Mayo Clinic urologist. “A lot of men who had their prostates removed 15, 20 years ago when they were in their 60s, are now leaking in their 80s,” says Dr. Elliott. “They are otherwise healthy. But they’re also 80 years old. So the question is: How do these individuals do?”

When Mayo is talking about “gold standards” of treatment, I'm impressed, and I know they'll give you answers to all your quandaries about how to deal with after-effects of the surgery -- in the short term and for many years. And you have the good fortune of "tuning up" for eight weeks before hand.

Here’s a link to the news release: https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-urologists-to-present-findings-at-the-2015-american-urological-association-annual-meeting/

As a spouse of husband 9 weeks radiation.
Followed by Lupton shots the last four
years. Is there support people to converse with. Needless to say it does complicate
your life,in that,nothing is the same anymore.
Really affects personality.
Although, he does have some other
health maladies. COPD nebulizer three c day.
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Lupton shot

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Hi @success101, Connect, as you know, has an active online support network for people living with prostate cancer and their supporters. Thank you for taking part in these discussions.

There are also discussions about COPD in the Lung Health group here: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/lung-conditions/

After a radical prostatectomy, my radiologist has been monitoring my PSA over the last 2.5 years the numbers have been going up and down but always in the low range not requiring radiation. Can you speak to this and when radiation would be needed. They mention probably a piece of benign prostate was left behind.

Thank you for your questions for today's Q&A with Dr. Humphreys, @santi @markhouldsworth @markbenson @osgood1420 @kujhawk1978 @success101. The video is archived on this page should you wish to listen to it again.

Thankyou, I will read through
Both.