Looking for a Surgeon with Specific Skills

[Anthonyve]

This is a long shot.

I’m an Aussie.

I had HD brachytherapy for prostate cancer in 2010.

In 2016, I was diagnosed with Carcinoma in Situ in the bladder.

I’ve had multiple rounds of BCG, and I’m now heading towards a radical cystectomy.

My urologist is nervous about the risk of damage to the rectum, because the prostate is “sticky” after the brachytherapy.

I know there are a few centres in the US that specialise in this operation with high success.

I’m trying to find out if there is a surgeon here in Australia who might have worked at one of those centres in the US as many specialists from here train in America.

Alternatively, I’ve been trying to make contact with the centres to see if they know of such a surgeon but so far, no luck.

I hoping that someone in this group might be able to point me in the right direction.

Thank you.

[marnieg46]

Hi Anthony,

Not sure if this is of any help but Dr Tom Jarvis at Prince of Wales in Sydney and also at the Lifehouse in Camperdown trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering. He was recommended to us by my husband's urologist. We haven't used him as my husband didn't qualify for an AUS but needed an ileal conduit which was performed at a different hospital.

Regards, Marnie.