[Maynerd]

A TURP is generally very safe surgery lasting an hour, 4 days in the hospital and within a couple weeks normal activity can be resumed. It's quite common electable surgery.

You obviously don't have a clue. A TURP is not a radical prostetectomy, where the entire prostate is removed. It is a technically difficult and bloody operation. It analagous to equating open heart surgery with a coronary arteriogram.

You political analysis parallels your medical analysis as well.

[George W. Bush]

A TURP is not a radical prostetectomy, where the entire prostate is removed. It is a technically difficult and bloody operation. It analagous to equating open heart surgery with a coronary arteriogram.

So after Rudy's 'cure', what are his chances of the cancer flaring up again?