The best treatment option for prostate cancer continues to be the subject of intense debate (including the option of not treating some older men with slow-growing cancer at all). Both radiation therapy and nerve-sparing robotic prostatectomy are associated with significant incidences of impotence and urinary incontinence, and both treatments are considered "standard of care" therapy for this disease. As I have mentioned, world class experts on prostate cancer continue to disagree over which treatment option is the best, and so I cannot really endorse one treatment over another.
You might be interested in reviewing some of the columns that I have recently written on prostate cancer on my website (URL address is below).
Best of luck to you, and I hope that you will make a rapid and complete recovery.
Sincerely/ Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS
http://doctorwascher.com
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