I saw the local NHS urologist, but a rich friend with it who had seen five different surgeons on three continents recommended Professor Whocannotbenamedhere who had done over three thousand prostatectomies and was pioneering Retzius-sparing in Britain.
I saw him privately in his palatial rooms in The Shard on the South Bank on London, @ £250 for twenty minutes. He charges £20,000 for the procedure Tech Guy had on his insurance, but I asked him to put me on his list on the NHS at Guildford, which he was happy to do.
When I mentioned Retzius-sparing to my local NHS surgeon at my ‘Dear John’ meeting, he said: ‘You’d better speak to Prof XXXX then. ‘I replied, funny enough, I have a consultation already arranged with him next week in London’. I had already twigged I had the Big C, so had made preparations for it.
At the height of the previous lockdown, the Prof and his team had their prostate surgery clinic up to 80% capacity, and I would think it’s up to 100% now. As Matron said, PCa is usually slow-growing, and I waited seven months from diagnosis to surgery, which was down to me, not the NHS.
You can find more about prostatectomy if you search for ‘Santis prostate’.
Best of luck.
Cheers, John.