Good afternoon,
My husband had his robotic prostatectomy last Thursday and other than a scare on Friday (high temp and the sepsis protocol being put into action), it’s been better than expected.
I wondered if anyone could share some insight into the following questions, the first one is that one of the pre-op checks was to look at his MPV levels and they have come back outside of the normal perimeters, when googling it looks like it can be linked to blood cancer and bone cancer, but not prostate cancer. Can anyone tell me if they have come across this indicator before and what they were told or what it meant?
The other question I have is that, the surgeon told us after the prostatectomy that my husband had clear margins, but he also said the histology report if important because it tells you how aggressive you cancer was and future prognosis?
To me, this is confusing? If the margins were clear, what difference would the aggressiveness of the cells and stage make? (Genuine question) as they believe his cancer was localised to the prostate.
Any insight would be appreciated, thanks for all of your support as always. It’s really helpful!
