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Robotic prostatectomy and lymph nodes dissection
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 30, 2023 | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
Last November, my Mayo-Rochester surgeon removed 9 lymph nodes while performing the radical prostatectomy. Biopsy results were Gleason 7 (4/3). I was very happy with this decision because it allowed for post surgery pathology to be performed and a better understanding of my situation. In the end, margins were negative for the prostate and no spread to lymph nodes. As I always say, you never know if cancer has spread, but technology of today shows I should be good to go.
Based on my experience and what I have heard from others, this non-medical lay person would recommend having a sample of lymph nodes removed for pathology.
Good luck!
Jim
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I concur with hammer. I had almost the exact Stage of PC as you, it was 3 months ago and all the LNs taken all negative. Go back for my first blood work in 3 weeks and hope Gleason is 0. I pee 200 times a day and now on two pills called Minapine and Betmiga 50 mg 3rd day on adding this Betmiga. Pee count is cut some but not normal at all. I stay home and do things, exercise hard againg 2.5 hours a day. Do the Kelgel and also the Pelvic one, lay on your back with legs up so you can hunch in the air and hold it a minute pushing up hard and a 1,000 cruches as it all builds back your core. The whole was the dreadufl and awful thing to happen to me. My dinky is dead, little and can't roll on my right side as it hurts too now. I am optismic and joke about it all as
what choice does one have. God Bless all of you