Posted 11/13/2008 8:57 AM (GMT -6)
Cindy and Kent,
Congrats on the zeros. It seems there are quite a few of us post surgical folks that still hang out and listen on this site. I expect less involvement is natural and most likely will wane as time goes by.
I am so glad to hear of Kents continuing progress.
All the best,
Frank
Diagnosed @ 53 years old now54
DRE normal , 2004 Biospy negative - 2008 Biopsy positive (01-08-08)
10 cores, 1 positive and at 1% of that one core
PSA @ surgery 6
Bone and Ct scans negative
clinicaly Staged at T1C - Gleason 3+3 = 6
Robotic Da Vinci performed March 27th, 2008
University of Chicago,Hospital stay 30 hours -
Catheter out in 7 days
normaly expected leakage
Post Pathology T2C, Gleason 7, 10 % of both portions of prostate
Seminal vessels clear, fat tissue clear
single positve margin measureing less than 1/2mm
Six week PSA < 0.1 , 4 month PSA <.05 Gen II test. 6 month PSA <0.01
Urologist recomends to hold off on Radiation and watch PSA closely. Oncologist and Radiation Oncologist seem to lean to doing pre-emptive radiation.Uroligist says 50/50 chance of PSA re-occurence.
I have decided to hold off and see in 3 months lets see in 9 months.
Next PSA January 2009.
11-08-08 (7months) starting to go without day pads, 100 mg Viagra seeing good results