Roger, you will do fine with this!! It is complicated surgery, but with a really good surgeon you will be amazing!
IF I were a male, I would seriously consider a neo (they don't work as well with females.) However, I would want to be at a place and with a doctor who does LOTS of these...at least 100 or more a year. Any less and the doctor is still practicing. The success of the surgery is at least 80-90% dependent on the skill of the surgeon.
It also depends on the situation that he finds when he gets inside. Sometimes a patient goes into surgery expecting a neobladder and comes out with an ileal conduit since the position of the tumor made that impossible.
As to whether you have your surgery (no matter what kind) done robotically or conventionally is, again, immaterial. What counts is the EXPERTISE of the surgeon and the NUMBER he has done with that particular method.
You wouldn't take your brand new Maserati into a mechanic who only does diesel trucks, would you? You would find someone who specializes in Maseratis (you DO have a Maserati, don't you?
) Well, you need to get a mechanic for your body the same way.
Sara Anne
