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Perhaps (if you have the patience) it might be worthwhile watching the whole of an actual robotic prostate removal procedure. You will certainly get a better idea of what and how it was done. It is pretty interesting if you have the stomach to watch such surgery. http://www.or-live.com/jeffersonhospital/1285/event/rnh.cfm
Bill
1. Why is the disease we share called PROSTATE cancer? Why, because it starts in the prostate gland!!! Not outside it.
2. Since the biopsy needles only sample the prostate gland, is it possible that the disease identified as PROSTATE cancer could have developed elsewhere and have been imported into the gland by a procedure done AFTER the biopsy that discovered the disease? Err.....probably not!
Have you ordered your copy of the Prostate Primer yet? Have you read Donna Pogliano's draft yet?
Personally I found "A Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer" by Dr Patrick Walsh to be very good. I found it a very understandable read. Keep in mind that Dr Walsh is an "open guy" and tends speak well of this procedure.
