Posted on 01/09/2024 12:54:44 PM PST by DallasBiff
A prostatectomy is a surgical procedure in which a urologist removes your prostate to treat prostate cancer or benign prostatic hyperplasia. The two main types include a simple prostatectomy and a radical prostatectomy. Risks include incontinence, erectile dysfunction and surgical risks. Most people recover after four to 10 weeks.
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“Everyone I know who has had that procedure performed on them can no longer get an erection or function sexually.”
After about 6 weeks post-surgery I didn’t have that problem.
He had his cancerous prostate removed. How is that elective surgery?
There are other methods of treatment, such as chemical reduction of testosterone and/or radiation.
It’s a life altering bitch that one never fully recovers from.
When a man has prostate cancer that is contained within the prostate, surgery is often the best treatment plan.
However, you need to be wise in selecting the urologist to do the surgery.
I’ve referred about 8 men to a particular urologist at MD Anderson. None of them had more than short-term urinary or ED problems.
Send me a private message if you want to know his name to get a self-referral.
Where did you have your surgery?
Where did you have your surgery?
City of Hope, Duarte, CA
It depends.
I’m sorry this has happened to him, but why not tell his boss? Why the secrecy?
Removal isn’t the only treatment option. I guessing he could have opted for another form of treatment such as radiation or chemnotherapy treatment with the radioactive “seed” implants and there are others. Also some men choose active monitoring where they get PSA testing and biopsies annually to monitor the cancer and may elect not to have any treatment if the cancer is not progressing rapidly.
I’m looking at this.
https://uropartners.com/Conditions/Aquablation
I feel like Hyman Roth in GodFather II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ynHC-JeTU
I agree. It shouldn’t have been so secret.
Same here, I was told it could remove the cancer. Unfortunately mine came back.
I have read about a bull clamp method that is used instead of cauterizing the vessels. Supposedly a greatly reduced risk of nerve damage.
If the guy is old enough when diagnosed, there’s “Let it Be”; there is implantation of radioactive seeds, maybe something newer than those 40 year old treatment options to surgery.
A friend of mine had it and with injections, he can perform. Either way, beats the hell out of ‘dead’.
Proton radiation therapy is very, very effective.
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