Congratulations Peter.  Heal up and forget about it all.

jimhoney
standard RRP age 52, cured, no significant aftereffects

Excellent!

Just for insurance, it would be a good idea to have the specimens sent to a
specialist lab for a second look. The labs are known to uros, but for
some reason they don't mention them. A list can be found on the website
of the Prostate Cancer Research Institute at:
http://prostate-cancer.org/index.html

I understand that insurance will cover the cost.

Regards,

Steve J

"Never -- never -- never give up!  Never go gently.  There will be plenty of
gentle after we die, so until then -- fight -- control the rhythms and tempo
of the dance, even when you have to let the PCa dancing bear lead for awhile
-- even when you have to wear the lead suit as you dance -- never let the
bear set the rhythm and tempo of your dance with life -- when the bear
finally takes control, it will be a very hollow feeling for him, because I
will be gone -- dancing in a better place."
--Thanks to E. B. (Burns) Mixon, PCa survivor, June 14, 2005 on The Prostate
Problems Mailing List

Great report!

You probably are already aware of this,  but sometimes people get
confused about the fact that the clinical stage might be T1c, but the
pathological stage after surgery is T2X where X is a, b, or c. So it
seems that the stage went up after surgery.  T1c before surgery means
the doctor felt nothing on DRE.  But after surgery, except in the
unlikely event no cancer was found at all, the pathologist is definitely
going to find something, so it can't be lower than T2. It is classified
as a, b,c or c, depending on the classification scheme and whether
cancer was found in one lobe or both lobes.  T2c means cancer was found
in both lobes, but that is quite common and doens't mean anything.

If you look at the Sloan Kettering nomogram program at their web site,
in a case like yours, the probability of no recurrence after 7 years is
in the high 90's.

Congratulations Peter

What a relief!!