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[Cajun Jeff]

On the show today there was a discussion about Prostate Cancer and treatment as well as ramifications. Frank Talk was mentioned as well as our King. (Paul)

Congrats Paul were so proud of you.

Guys tonight i will post the link and you can listen to the program on line.

Again guys give the king a big hand. We love you Paul

OK Guys I edited this post so I can place the link if you wish to hear the broadcast. This is the link.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/03/141014060 ... er-surgery

Cajun Jeff

[antelope]

C'est magnifique!

[JBinNCCT]

Guys - i had the pleasure of meeting with Paul today (lucky for me - we live in the same town). I can't tell you how anxious, frustrated and discouraged I was since my surgery 4 weeks ago and the unknowns that were building up. After meeting with Paul, it was like a large part of that fog had been lifted. He is so damn knowledgeable & helpful and deserves all the credit and more for helping all of us to be able to get together in these forums and helping us deal with our individual concerns. He is the best.......

[hryqwert]

Here is the link to the NPR transcript and broadcast:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/03/141014060/many-patients-suffer-post-prostate-cancer-surgery
This 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

[antelope]

Well done, JJ. Thanks.

[Cajun Jeff]

GREAT job JJ. It just perfect.

Cajun Jeff