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Posted 28 Feb 2025 at 11:25

Hi All


I will be shortly having my 6 weeks review following my Pc Surgery .Prior to surgery my Diagnosis was T3a and Gleason 8.


I am busy compiling some questions to ask the surgeon as I want to get as much information as possible.I know from reading a lot of the posts on the site that we have some very knowledgeable members so I was wondering if anyone could suggest important thinks to ask , such as do I have negative/positive margins etc.


I want to make the most of my time with the surgeon and don’t want to regret that I did not ask something particularly important whilst I had the chance.


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated .


Ps


just looking after my 16 months old grandson ,I,m using more nappies than him at the moment 😂😂😂


john

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Posted 28 Feb 2025 at 12:11

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
just looking after my 16 months old grandson ,I,m using more nappies than him at the moment 😂😂😂


But, hopefully, yours will only be wet John. 🙂


Joking apart the post op histology report contains lots of important detailed information. I'd ask for a full copy of the report, mate.


 

Edited by member 01 Mar 2025 at 07:05  | Reason: Typo

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Posted 28 Feb 2025 at 13:11

The obvious questions are what is my PSA now if taken? You want it ideally to be undetectable but could take longer than 6 weeks to achieve this. What was final Gleason Score? Do I have any positive margins? If positive margins are they focal or not? What is the size of positive margins? Do I have PNI or vascular invasion? Was there anything unusual reported by the pathologist? Were the seminal vesicles free of malignancy? If you do not know about nerve sparing you will want to ask were all nerves spared? If not what percentage of nerves were spared if any? Then any questions you have about incontinence and/ or ED. Will they prescribe now for ED and penile health? They might give you odds of BCR based on your staging, grading etc? May be good to ask if anything you can do now to aid full recovery.


To be fair the Urologist should answer most of these questions without asking. Finally ask for the pathologist report.


Good luck!

Edited by member 28 Feb 2025 at 13:16  | Reason: Not specified

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Posted 01 Mar 2025 at 06:54

Thankfully they are 👍

 
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