RRP Tomorrow AM

Flytyer2

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Posted 12/14/2010 7:55 PM (GMT -7)

Thanks for all the input. Tomorrow is D-day. Traveled 12 hours to Mayo, last 3 hours on ice patches, yesterday. Pre-op procedures and tests today, RRP tomorrow about noon. Next post will be post-surgery. Will keep you all up-to-date in future to help others like you all helped me.

Fairwind

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Posted 12/14/2010 8:01 PM (GMT -7)

Hey, good luck flyer! Keep us posted.. The trip on the icy roads will be the worst part..

Radical

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Posted 12/14/2010 8:15 PM (GMT -7)

See you on the other side Flytyer2, Good Luck from Australia.........Rgds Kev

Age 52yrs [Gold Coast Qld, Australia]
6 out of 8 cores positive 3 X 60% / 3 X 10%
PSA 4 Gleason Score 3+4=7 Stage T1c
RP 24/12/08 Dr Philip Stricker [Sydney]
Upgrade Gleason Score 4+3=7 Gleason Differential 60%/40%
Stage T2c Three small foci total volume <10%
Margin status- Focal Involvement
Nil - EPE
ED- okay with Meds.
PSA at 2 yrs, no change remains 0.03
"Everyday in Every-way I Get Better'

Purgatory

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Posted 12/14/2010 8:26 PM (GMT -7)

good luck, see you on the recovery side

Age: 58, 56 dx, PSA: 7/07 5.8, 10/08 16.3
3rd Biopsy: 9/08 7 of 7 Positive, 40-90%, Gleason 4+3
open RP: 11/08, on catheters for 101 days
Path Rpt: Gleason 3+4, pT2c, 42g, 20% cancer, 1 pos marg
Incont & ED: None
Post Surgery PSA: 2/09 .05,5/09 .1, 6/09 .11. 8/09 .16
Post SRT PSA: 1/10 .12, 4/8 .04, 8/6 .06 11/10 Not taking it
Latest: 6 Corr Surgeries to Bladder Neck, SP Catheter since 10/1/9, SRT 39 Sess/72 gy ended 11/09, 21 Catheters, Ileal Conduit Surgery 9/23/10

142

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Posted 12/14/2010 8:26 PM (GMT -7)

Hope everything is uneventful.

Best wishes to you and family. We will see you on the other side!

Cajun Jeff

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Posted 12/14/2010 8:45 PM (GMT -7)

Best wishes to you! See you on the other side.

Cajun Jeff

9/08 PSA 5.4 referred to Urologist
9/08 Biopsy: GS 3+4=7 1 positive core in 12 1% cancer core
10/08 Nerve-Sparing open radicalSurgery Path Report Downgrade 3+3=6 GS Stage pT2c margins clea
r3 month: PSA <0.1
19th month: PSA <0.1
2 year PSA <0.1
Only issue at this time is ED but getting better

Alegar

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Posts : 91

Posted 12/15/2010 8:58 AM (GMT -7)

Good luck, Fly!

Diagnosis:
July 1, '10
PSA 3.88
Gleason 3+3=6
2 out of 12 samples positive

Solution:
DaVinci Oct 1 '10, UNC Chapel Hill
Cath/JP Drain out Oct.16, '10

Personal Statistics:
Age: 54
Weight: 184 lbs.
Height: 6 feet

AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY!

Burlcodad

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Posted 12/15/2010 9:16 AM (GMT -7)

Best of luck

Ray

clocknut

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Posted 12/15/2010 9:25 AM (GMT -7)

I've been thinking about you and your 12-hour drive. Glad you made it OK. The surgery should be a piece of cake after that ordeal. Look forward to hearing from you on the other side of surgery.

skeener

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Posted 12/15/2010 9:42 AM (GMT -7)

Good luck.

Skeener

Magaboo

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Posted 12/15/2010 11:33 AM (GMT -7)

Best wishes from Canada. Wishing you a fast and complete recovery.

Mag

Born 1936
PSA 7.9, Gleason Score 3+4=7, 2 of 8 positive
open RP Nov 06, T3a, Gleasons 3+4=7, Seminal vesicles and lymph nodes clear
Catheter out 15 Dec 06, Dry since 11 Feb 07
All PSA tests in 2007 (4) <.04
PSA tests in 2008: Mar.=.04; Jun.=.05; Sept.=.08; at SRT Start=0.1, Salvage RT completed (33 days-66Gy) 19 Dec 08
PSA: in Jan 09 =.05, all tests to date (Jul 10) <.04

BuiDoi

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Posted 12/15/2010 12:47 PM (GMT -7)

The things that we men will do to lose weight.. ..You would think we could be more imaginative.

All will be fine - Our thoughts from Sydney- "Oprah-City"

Nov 2009 = First-PSA 5.3 @ 60yo - Asymptomatic - DRE-Non-Palpable
Jan-'10 = TRUS Bx DX - AC T1c - GS(3+3)=6 , 5 & 45% max., L-MidZone
May-'10 = RRP-Nrv-Spare
Post Op. GS(3+4)=7, 1.1cm3, Pos Margins, EPE (focal) Lateral Left
MI(xtensive) Post, Grade3 x 8mm
+8week PSA<0.01, ED-85%, Incont-30%
+16W PSA<0.01, ED -85%, Cont -5%
+17W First 'DRY' day. ED -90%
+26W ED -60%

An38

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Posted 12/16/2010 5:10 AM (GMT -7)

Best wishes Fly!

Husband's age: 52. Sydney Australia.
Family history: Mat. grandfather died of PC at 72. Mat. uncle died of PC at 60. He has hereditary PC.
PSA: Aug07 - 2.5|Feb08 - 1.7|Oct09 - 3.67 (free PSA 27%)|Feb10 - 4.03 (free PSA 31%) |Jun10 - 2.69. DRE normal.
Biopsy 28Apr10: negative for a diagnosis of PC however 3 focal ASAPs “atypical, suspicious but not diagnostic” for PC. Review of biopsy by experienced pathologist, 1/12 core: 10% 3+3 (left transitional), 1/12 core: ASAP (left apex)
Nerve sparing RP, 20Aug10 with Dr Stricker. Post-op path: 3+4 (ISUP 2005). Neg (margins, seminal vesicles, extraprostatic extension). Multifocal, with main involvement in the fibro-muscular zone.
Post RP PSA,
Lab 1: Sep10 – 0.02|Nov10 – 0.03
Lab 2: Nov 10 - 0.01

knotreel

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Posts : 669

Posted 12/16/2010 6:55 AM (GMT -7)

Now it is ouchy ouch time for awhile! I hope you find that the RRP lives up to it's billing in comfortable recovery, it did for me. I got soms good books and spent lots of time in the recliner. Hoping you have a speedy pain free recovery.

06-08 1st biopsy neg psa 4
10-09 psa 5.5 2nd biopsy 1/12 pos. 10%, G(4+3) age 65
12-15-09 RRP Tulane NOLA Dr Lee
Path, 1%, clr marg, no EPE, no SVI, nodes cl, G(4+3)
100% incontinent after 3 mo. PT
ED, pre-op severe, post op total
10/10 Dr Boone, Baylor recomended AUS
AUS and IPP scheduled 1/11/11
post op psa's 0.04,<0.1,<0.1

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