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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good thoughts for you both tomorrow OP! My neighbor had prostate cancer at age 45 treated with Da Vinci (robotic) prostatectomy and now no evidence of disease. He did not need any other treatments but is checked periodically.

You guys were smart to choose sedation.

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These stories aren't useful. I know lots of people treated for breast cancer who are doing fine. I know lots of people who died. Individual outcomes may vary, so one story isn't helpful.[/quote]

But you can look at the data, read the studies, and run the nomograms and you will see an extremely high long term survival rate for most prostate cancer patients.  Those things are very useful and very comforting.[/quote]

I bet the doctors aren't going to make such proclamations until they see the biopsies and staging. These kind of remarks aren't comforting to those with more serious outcomes and can be seen as making light of their valid concerns. Are you going to say this to someone like Joe Biden with Gleasons 9 and bone mets? From experience, these statements are not helpful.[/quote]

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