hi folks - here's the situation.  a friend of mine had his prostate
taken out last year.  he scarred up and has had two TURPS and both of
them have failed.  he is self catheterizing again.  the doctor is
telling him that this time the is a possibility that the TURP could go
south and there is a possibility that he the self-catheterizing may be
for the rest of his life.  

i was told that also, when i had my TURP after i was stopping up from
the scarring too, but my TURP held.  

now, here's the straight skinny.  my wife body makes too much scar
tissue.  she can have a tumor taken out of her arm and it will scar up
and look like some one really cut her up good.  she's had three back
surgeries,  two of them by micro surgery but the scarring came back with
a vengeance.  the last one was the new technique.  it was a new type of
laser that the body didn't know it was damaged and didn't make any
scarring.  that was 1992.  they used the same type of laser for her
corporal tunnel on both hands and you can not tell where the laser or
the cameras went in.  

now, putting all this together, does anyone know of a laser turp that
won't scar up like the PVP.  the friend lives in canada, so i don't know
what kind of health care they would have to cover that.

you guys have came through before and i really would like to help him if
there is anything out there in this dept.

~ curtis

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