Best doctors for radical prostatectomy in the United States

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Beatcancer

06/09/2019 at 2:59 PM

Any thoughts on the best doctors to remove your prostate in Dallas or elsewhere

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Lee__R

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06/09/2019 at 10:21 PM

Good advisor

@Beatcancer‍ Great question and Welcome to Carenity. I have moved your discussion to the appropriate forum for its topic to better facilitate the discussion. - please let me know if you have any questions going forward on how to effectively use Carenity's forums, I am happy to help.

Best doctors for radical prostatectomy in the United States https://www.carenity.us/forum/prostate-cancer/your-opinion-on-prostate-cancer-treatments/best-doctors-for-radical-prostatectomy-in-the-united-states-1074 2019-06-09 22:21:17

prostatecnr

06/09/2019 at 11:00 PM

Cleveland Clinic and John Hopkins Hospitals rank in the top for Urology. I do not know for sure about specifically for prostatectomy, but I would assume so. However, with that being said, I have heard some poor outcome stories regarding teaching hospitals - not specifically with prostatectomy, but I have friends who had orthopedic surgeries and they went bad at a teaching hospital and the surgeon who fixed the mistakes of other doctors - more than one of these doctors - said that at teaching hospitals it is common for students to be performing the surgery under the guidance of the surgeon, so one small mistake and it is too late. And in the operative report they do not even mention the mistake. I have seen it with friends. So I would just ask the doctor before a surgery if at a teaching hospital if it is him/her who would be doing the surgery or a student under his/her guidance... you want to know every thing.

Beatcancer

06/10/2019 at 5:08 AM

Good point, and thank you

Johns Hopkins is a great hospital but also have heard these horror stories and have moved them off the list for removal of the prostate. I have narrowed the list to the following doctors I live in Dallas

Dr. Claus Robinson , UT Southwesten

Dr. Thomas Aherking, Univ California , Irvine

Any suggestions from anyone in the forum

Beatcancer

06/10/2019 at 5:09 AM

Dr Thomas Aherling

prostatecnr

06/21/2019 at 4:22 AM

@Beatcancer‍ did you resource vitals.com, healthgrades.com, or ratemds.com?

prostatecnr

06/21/2019 at 4:27 AM

@Beatcancer Did you see this post here? Not too sure on the intriniscs of the procedure or if it would apply to you in your case, but you may want to ask as he received great results https://member.carenity.ushttps://www.carenity.us/forum/other-discussions/your-opinion-on-prostate-cancer-treatments/amazing-results-whole-gland-prostate-cryoablation-1056

jonlo11

06/21/2019 at 4:58 AM

Dr. Ahlering in Irvine California is at the top of the list. I believe he also does his surgeries now with the assistance of robotics.

Have you been in contact with his office? He does deal with patients from out of state, so it is not something rare to his office. As the above member mentioned... check Vitals and healthgrades for doctors... you will see Dr. Ahlering has great reviews!