Here is the link to the NPR transcript and broadcast:
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/03/141014060/many-patients-suffer-post-prostate-cancer-surgeryThis is part of the transcript:
CONAN: You wrote about one of them, Paul Nelson(ph) of New Canaan, Connecticut. Tell us about him.
PARKER-POPE: You'll have to remind me: Is he the wine - he's, no, tell me about Paul Nelson.
CONAN: He was - learned he had prostate cancer at the age of 46 and opted for robotic prostotectomy - I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly - with a famous New York surgeon who played down the worries of erectile dysfunction.
PARKER-POPE: Yeah, I'm sorry. I've talked to so many men about this since the story. I just - there's so many that have stories to tell. And what's interesting about Paul Nelson is that he - you know, he sat down with a doctor, a very respected surgeon, who gave him very promising statistics: 98 percent of men do fine after surgery.
And he went in and had surgery, and he wasn't fine. He had erectile function problems after surgery, as the majority of men will have, and when he tried to talk to his surgeon about it, you know, the response was: Well, you must just have something. You know, it's an anxiety issue. You've got your own set of problems. And he was kind of abandoned by this surgeon.
He decided to start, you know, basically a support group for men to talk about these issues because, as he discovered, that most men - there were more men like him than those that the doctor was talking about, that 98 percent success rate, which when you really get behind the numbers, what you learn is that that's a very specific, select group of patients under a very sort of specific set of circumstances.
And while that is real - those are real data, those aren't data that apply to the average man who's diagnosed with prostate cancer.
JJ