Vance Roy and Barbara live in Switzerland. He was 70 when he was diagnosed in
April, 2009. His initial PSA was 7.0 ng/ml, his Gleason Score was 3+4=7 and he
says he was staged G 3 - it seems likely that using the common TNM staging he
would have been staged T1c . His choice of treatment was Robotic Radical Prostatectomy.
Here is his story.
I am a 70 year old retired neurosurgeon (USA citizen)
who lives in Switzerland most of the year. I have had yearly PSAs for about 15
years with a normal level listed as 4.0 ng/ml. In 2008, my PSA was 3.5 and had
risen slowly over a 10 year period.
In
2009, it was 7.0 (repeat was 5.5). I had a transrectal biopsy after with ultrasound
which showed 3+4 Gleason score cancer. I underwent a robotic assisted laparoscopic
radical prostatectomy at the Luzerner Kantonsspital in July 2009 by Dr. Agostino
Mattei after a negative CT and bone scan.
I
had a catheter in for five days (3 days in hospital) with no incontinence upon
removal. I did have a significant neurapraxia
in my right lower extremity from positioning 7 hours on the OR table. This has
now cleared by 90%.
As
of today (1 Nov 2009), I have a 0 PSA at 3 months.
Vance's
e-mail address is: fredch3@hotmail.com.
