2 weeks to go for prostate surgery

Every so often I visit the forum and get really depressed.  It is so sad to see people jumpting to intervention when it isn't necessary.  21 years ago my PSA was nearly 10 and the doctor recommended I see a surgeon.  They did two random biopsies and found nothing.  Ten years later, at the age of 60, a biopsy found 3 + 4 cancer in two samples.  Based solely on PSA my doubling time is nearly five years.  Having read the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force Recommendations of Prostate Screening and Treatment, I have chosen to hang tight, avoid treatment and see what happens.  At 71 I enjoy good health, have no prostate symptoms, and have no problem with an erection.  My PSA is around 100.  I have a good friend in the States and he is ten years older that me with a PSA of 400, also with no symptoms.  

Again, I find it very depressing to go on this website and see how easily people who are experiencing fear opt for treatments that will likely alter their lives forever.  So Sad.

I am in a simular situation and found out about FLA, Focal Laser Ablation. I met a doctor who has opened a prostate laser center in Houston next to MD Anderson the great Cancer place. This guy had me up load my 3TMRI I did  at Baylor and he studied it and called me. He spoke twice for over 3 hours to me and my wife and I learned so much. He is a talented Interventional Radiologist. The great part of this stroy is he spoke until my wife and I ran out of breath. you can look it up under that name or I will send it to you.

With FLA, it is very minimally invasive with little to no side effects as they use an MRI to target  the lesion with a needle lazer and remove the lesion in real time with a MRI allowing them to fully see the seminal vesicals, the ejaculation duck, the urethra, the nerve bundles and none of these are touched so there is not sexual side effects. Over  1000 of these have been done in the US but Urologist will not tell you about this treatment because it has to be done by a trained certified IR. 

No Blood, No radiation, done as outpatient in a 2 hour procedure and you go home after the conscious sedation wears off. The procedure also relieves BPH symptoms in a lot of cases. Two birds with one stone.

you can look it up or personal message me and i will give you the contact and the doctor to call for the free second opinion or consultation. Never stop searching even if you are in the watchful wating mode as I am. I am sure glad I found this Doctor. 

I had the surgery on Sept. 21. I don't know your age, I'm 62, and my PSA went from 4 to 6.5 to 9.1 in a year and a half. The doctors seemed content to watch mine until the jump to 9.1 and that was when they sent me for a biopsy. Turned out that 6 samples were positive and Gleason 8. If I was older, they said, they would have just watched it a bit longer, but the specialist recommended the removal right away so i went with that. It will be another month until I get tested again, but he seems confident that the cancer had not spread from the prostate. 

Hello Greg.Your prognosis sounds good.What was the latest PSA. reading.