re: Prostate cancer, gleason score 6, psa 5…..

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Wait, what? Why?

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My dad just had the giant robot spider prostatectomy. From what we understood, radiation causes changes to the prostate that make surgery very hard to successfully complete later. It's like the texture and how it attaches to stuff in the area changes and makes it hard to peel the prostate cleanly off the surroundings successfully if the cancer returns. If surgery after radiation makes sure to take the cancer, the risk of bad damage to the rectum, nerves, etc. Is relatively high. If you try to spare the surrounding structures, you run a very real risk of leaving cancer behind.

At least that's how I understood what the urologist said.

Discuss with your doc.