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90% or higher? No way, there’s not a credible large scale survey that makes that claim. Closer to 15-25% suffer from incontinence permanently. And 30-50% wil

90% or higher? No way, there’s not a credible large scale survey that makes that claim. Closer to 15-25% suffer from incontinence permanently. And 30-50% will have ED. And 100% of outcomes will loose inches. 50% of RALP patients will have biochemical reoccurrence within 8 years. It takes 15 years of low PSA (<.1ng/ml) to state you are cured. The goal is to die with PaC, not because of it. All of these stats are available at PCRI.

fortran77 3y ago
> The goal is to die with PaC, not because of it. The reason many people die "with" it is because 67% of Americans are obese or overweight, and it usually dosn't show up 'til a person is 70. Of course these people die of something else first. If a person isn't fat, and has no other health problems, getting it removed if it hasn't spread beyond the prostate is the best choice.
fortran77 3y ago
See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9917389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9917389/ > Several studies report a progressive return of continence up to one year after RP, with a continence rate ranging from 68 to 97% at 12 months [13,14,15,16,17], while a progressive further improvement could be registered up to 2 years [18]. Note that I qualified it with under 70, good health otherwise, and non-obese or overweight. If you're in that category, you are extremely likely not to have continence problems after a year.