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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / October 2003Kaiser Permanente LA
Has anyone had a prostate cancer operation or radiation therapy at Kaiser Permanente Sunset in Los Angeles? Let me know your experiences, as I'll be having one or the other done there in the next few months. Thanks. > Has anyone had a prostate cancer operation or radiation therapy at > Kaiser Permanente Sunset in Los Angeles? Let me know your experiences, > as I'll be having one or the other done there in the next few months. > Thanks. Try a google groups search of this newsgroup. Kaiser in the LA area has come up before. If I remember correctly, the person asking the question had a hard time finding a Kaiser surgeon who regularly did nerve sparing surgery, but he eventually did find one. A friend of mine in the Bay area chose radiation over surgery partly because the Kasier surgeons' qualfications at his location were not too impressive, while at the same time he had access to a world class radiation oncologist at Stanford through Kaiser for some reason. If you choose surgery, you want a surgeon who has done the procedure hundreds of times and still does it regularly. If nerve sparing surgery is appropriate in your case, you need a surgeon skilled in that particular aspect.  SignatureLeonard Evens len@math.northwestern.edu 847-491-5537 Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208 > ... snip ... > A friend of mine in the Bay area chose radiation over surgery partly [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > surgery is appropriate in your case, you need a surgeon skilled in that > particular aspect. I had a similar experience with Kaiser in Baltimore. The urologist/surgeon who worked for Kaiser seemed fully qualified, but he was not a specialist in prostate surgery and I was not entirely comfortable with him. I asked for a referral for a second opinion with a radiation oncologist and they sent me to the head of the department of radiation oncology at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. That doctor (Dr. Robert Brookland) impressed me greatly. Did you have radiation therapy? If so how did it go? What kind of rad therapy? How many treatments, etc.? Any side effects? I'll probably to that route sometime in January. > > ... snip ... > > A friend of mine in the Bay area chose radiation over surgery partly [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Greater Baltimore Medical Center. That doctor (Dr. Robert Brookland) > impressed me greatly. Fernando Campos had his done there a few months ago, I hope he will read your post. Keith Lundy/So. California 40 Proton Beam Radiation Treatments Loma Linda Univ.Med Ctr..3/03-5/03 Hi Jerry, I had a RP performed at the Baldwin Park Kaiser facility on July 1st. I think they did a good job, I will have my first post-op PSA results next week. Contact me for more details or questions if you want. Fernando |
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