I just got back from a 6-month check-up with my Urologist. I gave him a copy of the article on post surgery satisfaction, excerpts of which I posted above. He just returned from a conference.

It appears that there are two opposing factions in the prostate surgery world: the perineal surgery faction (what I had 10 years ago) and the robotics faction. It appears that the results are identical except for incontinence. The rate for perineal is 5% and for robots it's 15%. He says these data have yet to be published, but were discussed at the conference.

My urologist was one of the first in the country to do the perineal and he will stay with it due to the incontinence issue. A doctor in the office has switched back from robotics to perineal.

Al