Treatment options

The first thing we talked about are the treatment options. You have two basic choices, radiation and surgery:

• According to my urologist, radiation (including seed therapy) pretty much nukes the prostate, turning it into scar tissue. That can lead to problems down the road that can't be easily fixed with surgery (without gutting you that is). Radiation can also kill many/most of the nerves that make things work down there.
  
  
• That leaves surgery. Older surgery methods also risked damage to those same nerves. Pretty much guaranteed in fact. There is a new method of surgery available that my doctor has been doing about 2 years (and he trained at Moffit for three years prior to that). It uses a robotic gizmo and he sits at a video booth! It allows much better control, and its success rates are much higher than other methods. This daVinci gizmo looks like my best option to (first and foremost) get rid of the cancer and secondly, have a good chance at a normal life thereafter. Brandon Hospital got the latest model 4 months ago... Here is a link to this device: click