Hello,
I am a fit and healthy man in my early 40s and recently diagnosed with localised, low-risk prostate cancer, Gleason score 6, grade 1. I do not have any symptoms and no family history of cancer.
I am an expat living in an EU country and two specialists here have recommended radical prostatectomy with a robot. They say I am too young for active surveillance, but I feel I am too young to deal with the possible side effects of prostatectomy now. I am very active, and the thought of these side effects is very worrying for me, so I am not sure what to do?
I would like to talk to someone in the UK about it, but I am not sure if that is possible without going private? And perhaps the advice in the UK would be the same anyway?
The specialist has said it is okay to wait until next year to make a decision. So I'm using the time to find out as much as possible. Any advice would be welcome.
Thank you very much.
