| Woster: Recuperation makes me value my freedom
As I write this column, I am in my 10th day of recuperation from prostate cancer surgery and doing well, thank you.I bring this up, not to belabor the fact that I got whacked with a disease. We have already done that.I will, however, for the final time, remind all of you fellows who are over 50 to include the prostate tests in your regular physical. It can save your life.Back to recuperation.I was sent home from a Wednesday morning surgery, Friday afternoon and the rest of that day is pretty much forgotten. High test drugs and lack of sleep will do that.It was about noon on Saturday that I began to investigate the direction, which I would take for the following couple or three weeks as far as "something to do." Dr. Hofer had fairly well defined the "what to dos" and quite frankly, I don't think he worried a lot about what should we do about Jim's boredom.
Just hours apart, 2 brothers undergo robotic prostate cancer surgery
We are blessed to have each other to depend on. If you have to go through something bad like cancer, youre glad to have a friend to go through it with, said one of two brothers from Savannah, Georgia recovering from robotic prostate cancer surgery. The two siblings flew to The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York to have lifesaving surgery on the same day this week. Dr. David B. Samadi, M.D., Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Department of Urology at Mount Sinai successfully performed the robotic prostate cancer surgeries on the siblings one after another on Monday, January 14th, 2008. The brothers have benefited physically and even emotionally as a result of having their prostatectomy with the da Vinci robotic technology at Mount Sinai together, said Dr.
On sex after prostate surgery, confusing data
For men having prostate cancer surgery, one of the biggest fears is that they will be left impotent. Unfortunately, the research that might help address that question is likely only to confuse. A notable study in 2005 showed that a year after surgery, 97 percent of patients were able to achieve an erection adequate for intercourse. But last month, researchers from George Washington University and New York University reviewed interim data from their own study showing that fewer than half of the men who had surgery felt their sex lives had returned to normal within a year. So which of the studies is right? Surprisingly, they both are. The results depend on several crucial variables — the type of patient studied, sex life before surgery and, most important, the definitions doctors use to define potency.
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