Question on delaying RARP surgery by 1 month

Posted by troxel @troxel, 4 hours ago

Hello new to the group.

I have surgery scheduled at Mayo Phoenix (Dr Jack Andrews) in the middle of July. I have been diagnosed via biopsy of Gleason score 3+4 with Intermediate Favorable Prostate Cancer Group 2.

Problem is my wife has a wedding to go to in Europe and I would like to reschedule on month later so she can go. Is there any risk with this diagnosis and month delay? Thank You.

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Jeff Marchi | @jeffmarc | 3 hours ago

With a 3+4 you could easily go three or four months without doing surgery. Ask your doctors to delay it. An extreme thing you could do would be to go on ADT to prevent from spreading but with a 3+4 it’s not going to Spread or grow very fast. Even waiting six months would probably be no big deal.

wheel1 | @wheel1 | 2 hours ago

I would say not a problem. I delayed for two months while daughter home during summer from college. We dropped her back at school on a Sunday and went into surgery on Thursday.