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Hi to all and i hope you are all coping and healing from your diagnosis and operations, well my time has come, in about 7 hours i will be on the table and will be joining the club of post ops, all i can say is many thanks for everyones thoughts and advice since i have been on this forum it has helped me cope with this little glitch in my life and i am sure it will help me even more post op, now it is time to move on and after tomorrow get my life back to normal. Not looking forward to it but its got to be done, hope the doc hasnt been out on the town tonight hes gonna need a steady hand tomorrow.
Well here goes !!
Watch this space
Back soon
Mike ( London Uk )

Hi mickeyboy,

Good luck to you, and hope to be hearing from you after the procedure as soon as you feel up to it of coarse.

Glen

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Diagnosed at age 60

PSA went from 2.2 to 3.8 in 14 months

2 of 14 cores positive at 10%

Gleason 6(3+3), negative DRE, neg. boundaries

DaVinci surgery on 02/23/06

 

Mickeyboy,                          ~~~~~~~~~~~#$%^&*     Group Hug %^&*(%~~~~~~~~~~~~   See different THREAD titled:  Group Hug for Mickeyboy....... Postings from:   GreenAcres M. Kat Buddy Lee & Murphy..... mama bluebird - Lee & Buddy… from North Carolina Link to our personal journey…>>>      Our Journey ~ Sharing is Caring   April 3, 2006  53 on surgery day RRP / Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy with "wide excision" PSA 4.6   Gleason  3+3=6    T2a   Confined to Prostate June 29th ~ PSA Less than 0.1 Non-detectable Post Edited (bluebird) : 1/13/2007 7:07:21 PM (GMT-7)

Good luck Mickey!
I'll pray for you tonight. I look forward tou your return to the forum.

From a friend in Vegas...

tc

Hi Mike,

When you read these posts, it will be done!!!! Greatest feeling in the world. Best of luck and my prayers are there for you......

Jim

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Age 72. Diagnosed 11/03/06. PSA 7.05. Stage T2B Gleason 3+3.

RRP 12/7/06. Nerves and nodes okay.

Pathological stage: T2B. Gleason 3+4. Cancer confined to prostate.

PSA on 1/3/07 - 0.04.  Next PSA on 4/4/07.

            "Squeeze before you sneeze!"

Mikey, It's like you have been peddling a bike up hill all this time, now you are at the top of the hill. Well, it's all down hill from here on! You made it through the rough part (mental) now's the easy part (physical) God save the Queen and Mickey too!
Your Yank friend, Pete

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53 years old, Surgury, Radical Prostatectomy 8/20/03, PSA 6.6, Gleason 3 + 3 = 6, Adenocarcinoma extent (moderate) Stage & Margin:T2NOMX, No Metastases, Organ Confined, bone scan: Neg.  

Hi,
As a new poster and, by definition by being in this forum, a new friend, all the best to you.

dj

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dj's stats:

PSA (10/04): 2.9; PSA (2/06):4.4, on Androgel (serum T about 450) at age 56; negative DRE, no symptoms.

PSA (5/06):5.7 with a free PSA% of 8, OFF Androgel (serum T 163). 

Biopsy (5/06): 4/12 samples positive; postitive samples only on right side; max Gleason 4+3=7 (in 2 of the 4 -from area nearest bladder.

DaVinci robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy + bladder lift + Right nerve plastic surgery (8/23/06).

Catheter out 4 weeks postop, due to internal pinhole leak at bladder-urethra junction.

Final pathology report:T2c-both sides,but in capsule; neg. margins, neg. lymph nodes, neg. seminal vesicles; final max Gleason still 4+3=7.

Follow-up PSA (11/06): <0.008; serum T: 195 OFF Androgel (at present).