Concerning Outrage #3 Prime example Prostate Cancer surgery:
The story states, as if it’s a fact that Medical Science still has little idea which treatments work best for the disease. This is absolute and utter nonsense. My grandfather died of the disease over 50 years ago, no treatments provided. Two of my uncles died due to choices to avoid surgery. They are dead due to the disease. My father had the classic surgery over 25 yrs ago and is still alive today. In October of 2014 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer and through the use of an MRI and and ultrasound that created a 3D image for the precise taking of biopsies in order to get pathology that later revealed a Gleason 7 grade cancer. I had robotic surgery in December and spent one night in the hospital. Having the robotic surgery had several positive effects. Lower blood loss requiring no transfusions, minimal trauma and recovery due to avoiding the belly button to pubic bone incision, faster surgery time. All these resulted in lower hospital stay costs as well. One of my younger brothers was also prompted to get screened and long story short, had a positive diagnosis and pathology. Barely a month after his surgery he is running again with his two full size doberman pinchers. I have a friend who, if he would have had surgery when first diagnosed would not be currently fighting for his life with chemo, radiation and hormone treatments because the Dr. didn’t use all the tools at their professions disposal and missed the aggressive cancer on the opposite side of the prostate. He had only found the “watch and see” cancer on the near side. So, are THERE treatments that work? Absolutely yes. Surgery removes the cancer completely if detected early enough using advanced medical resources. Not using robotic surgery by skilled surgeons is compounding the recovery and clearly multiplying the hospital recovery costs. Your writer did NOT do their homework and its shameful that some may read this article and assume that they do not need to aggressively treat a disease that is easily treatable when found early. We tell our children to not play with fire. Adult men do not need to play with prostate cancer. For actual data on robotic vs non robotic surgery, I suggest you try these sites.
Tower Urology Robotic Prostatectomy
Please post this so others don’t needlessly die.
Sincerely,
Matt K.