Do you know what lab the biopsy samples were sent to?

If it's a big lab like Dannon where they do a lot then I wouldent think
another lab check would not be needed unless you have a high concern for
the quality work performed.  It's your call for sure and also consider
the cost of the second lab test unless your insurance covers it then
you'd be ok.  
The fact that they found IT won't change the outcome (you still need to
treat it someway) regardless of the score at least in my humble opinion,
unless of course the lab that did the reading of the slides are so
incompetient that they couldent tell the difference between a normal
cell and an abnormal cell.  THAT would be a big concern.

Dale J.

Enlargement of the gland is a minor indicator of something wrong.  You
already knew that.  It does not point to PCa.  At least not nearly as much
as finding a hard spot on the gland.

Welcome to the club, Dave, and to an exciting time in your life.   Not
that so much excitement is always welcome.  

Your Gleason numbers, etc., look promising.  

I am not sure that 50 a year is considered to be a lot.   I'm trying to
remember what was recommended in the book my urologist gave me -- maybe
it recommended finding someone who did about 100 a year, that that was
the number needed to keep their skill level up.   Or maybe it was 50,
and the one who did mine did about 100 a year (though I think he does
more than that).   Even if I could remember the numbers correctly, it
wouldn't necessarily say whether your surgeon is good or not.   All I
can do is point out that some practitioners have opinions about how many
of these a surgeon needs to do in order to keep their skill levels up.

Regarding your Gleason score, you might ask just where the slides were
read.  

The urologist who did my biopsy had the slides read at Urocore.   He was
the one who gave me the book to read, and when I threw the question at
him the question from the book about how many RPs he did in a year, I
wasn't entirely satisfied with his answer.   I got a 2nd opinion
elsewhere and had my surgery done by one of the good ones who learned
the procedure under Walsh.    This 2nd surgeon was impressed, though,
that my urologist had had the slides read at Urocore.  He said he'd have
his own pathologist double-check but given that my slides had been read
by the guy at Urocore, didn't expect to come up with different
readings.   And he didn't.

(I don't recall the author of the book I got from my urologist, but I'm
pretty sure it wasn't Walsh.)    

JohnG

I have no problem with RRP and the surgeons that do it.  But RLRP is to RRP
what a day is to a week when it come to recovery.

The number of 50 RPR  per year is rather small. I would start looking
for a more experienced surgeon. This is extremely important if you
care about being continent and potent son after the procedure.
Any surgeon or even senior resident can remove prostate but to spare
nerves is a totaly something else and requires a real skill.
Tee

Good for you!

I hate it when a doctor says, "You've got this thing inside you that will
eventually kill you, but don't worry, it's growing slowly....  Hmmm, let me
see what time I've got available ... Nope, golf on Wednesday ...
Nope, my inlaws are visiting next month ... Ah yes - I can take you two
months from now."

   Alan