Need info in the Pacific Northwest

welcome,

there are some guys from the northwest around here. hopefully they will get to you.

your PSA scores are kinda scary. Are they going to do a bone scan or anything?

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Signficant Other diagnosed: 10/30/06 (age 63)
PSA: 3.7 (up from 3.4 prior year)
Gleason: 3+3
Biopsy: 1/10 positive, 5% cancerous, right apex.

Hi, sorry you had to be here, but we are all here to help each other.

I am a big fan of the robot: more precision, minimally invasive, minimally traumatic, fast recovery, less blood loss, and all that.

May I suggest going to:
http://www.davinciprostatectomy.com/hospitals.html
They have a list of all docs all over the country that use the robot.

Also, if you haven't found it, check out the section of www.msnbc.com called Low Blow. The site was started by an MSNBC writer who got PCa, and lives in the Seattle area. He chronicled his whole experience in a set of stories at that site, and there may be a lead for you there. I think his surgeon was a Dr. Christopher Porter at Virginia Mason Hospital.

The best, and welcome. Please keep us posted, and come back as you go through your planning. There is a lot of good advice here.

dj

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