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Medical Oncologist Referral
Would appreciate some referrals…… I’ve spoken to respected surgeons and radiologists at both MSK and MDA. Understand they are going to advocate for their line...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 27 2:40pm
Anyone have hernia surgery post prostatectomy? Complications?
Anyone have experience with hernia surgery post prostatectomy? Evidently, the normally "routine" abdominal hernia surgery is much more complicated for those who have had prostate...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 2, 2025
MRI Results
My MRI results seem to be more optimistic than the original diagnosis of Intermediate "unfavorable risk" given from the biopsy. I have gone through it...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 12 9:14am
Hormone therapy or surgery? Decipher Genomic score?
My husband is 68 and has localized (we hope) prostate cancer - PSA 9.2 in Sept., biopsy of 17 cores found 13 malignant, 2 of...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 31, 2024
Another 6 day post RALP this is my experience...
Been on here for about 9 months now and found it to be very helpful. Now that I am 6 days post RALP I thought...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 7 9:12pm
Radical prostatectomy 9 days ago. Need help with the pathology PLEASE
Hello everyone, thank you for taking your precious time to help. I previously wrote about my partner and his information, trying to figure out what...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Oct 15, 2023
Info is in, now decision time. Thoughts welcome.
So, I've learned a lot from this support group since I found out in Nov. 2025 that I was on the path to joining the...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 27 7:31am
Treatment questions for "younger men" with PC (40 to 60?).
52 year old recently diagnosed with PC after PSA test of 8.66, MRI, and eventual prostate biopsy confirmed (details below). Leaning towards Robotic prostatectomy but...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 24, 2024
Newly diagnosed
Hello, I’ve been lurking on this forum since I received the results of my MRI. I’m 73, my PSA jumped from 3.22 to 4.37 in...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 15 11:05am
Lower spine pain after robotic Prostate removal
I had prostate removed using the robotic assistant in April 2018. Before surgery I lifted weights and walked between 5 and 10 miles per day....
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 29, 2023
Severe gas pain nearly two weeks after surgery
Hello everyone. I wanted to ask if anyone has experienced gas pain (or similar) nearly two weeks after surgery. I woke up in the middle...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 15, 2025
What does robotic prostatectomy look like? Is it like a vasectomy?
This week I watched a video of a complete robotic prostatectomy procedure in Italy. It was on a medical education site for doctors. What a...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 16, 2025
Hormone Sensitive, Advance Prostate Cancer - Agressive Treatments
I am 69 and live in Portland, OR. I was diagnosed with a PSA of 25 in 2019 at age 63 and had surgery in...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 3, 2025
PSA anxiety
Help Freaking out because I had 6 consecutive PSA results < 0.05 readings after restarting degarelix in July, 2024. Yesterday my result was 0.05 -...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 22, 2025
Just got my prostatectomy pathology results
It’s been a while since I last posted. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in April of last year, Gleason 7 (3+4). PSA was 6.8...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 26, 2024
Info overload
I had a message almost complete on here and then whatever I pushed sent it ? ? ? Take 2 - much shorter I hope....
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 21, 2025
RARP Pathology II: Looking for direction
Ok. Quick summary is I was diagnosed this year with PC. May 12 had RARP. Post surgery doc (extremely well qualified DP surgeon and head...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jun 27, 2025
I need advice to help make a decision.......
Just to set the background: RARP on September 16. Cancer was intraductal and they found at least 1 lymph node with PC in it. My...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 3, 2024
Insurance Denying PART of Surgery
I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this ridiculous denial and what, if anything, they were able to do to overcome it.My doctor, one of...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 16, 2025
Surgery in Germany vs US
Hello everyone, i week and a half ago I did my RARP at the Martini Klinik, part of the University Clinic Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany....
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 13 9:15pm