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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 -...
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...
Info overload
I had a message almost complete on here and then whatever I pushed sent it ? ? ? Take 2 - much shorter I hope....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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