I retired at age 67, after working as a Sales Representative for Gibson Greeting Cards for 32 years, to help my son in his automotive repair shop. I am now 74 years of age.

During a September 2004 exam, my primary physician discovered that my PSA went from 3.93 to 5.02 during the past year. He suggested that I go to a Urologist for an examination.

The Urologist did a biopsy of my prostate, which indicated cancer and a Gleason score of 7 (3 + 4). His recommendation was to get a radical prostatectomy, but also suggested other options: Seed Therapy, Radiation, and Cryotherapy. All of these treatments seemed to me to have questionable results.

It so happened, that my son's supervisor at work,was diagnosed with prostate cancer several months before, and was told about Robotic Laparoscopic surgery. He and I talked about this procedure and gave me information about it and Dr. Lanteri's phone number to arrange an appointment. I then contacted Dr. Lanteri's office in Hackensack, NJ. To my surprise, he talked to me on my first call and gave me an appointment for an exam and consultation.

After the exam, he arranged with my primary physician to have the preliminary exams done locally near my home in Pennsylvania. Following these exams, he scheduled my surgery for January 4, 2005.

The procedure at Hackensack University Medical Center was done very efficiently. The surgery was done on January 4, 2005 and took about 3 hours. I spent that night at the hospital recuperating. The following day, everything was normal and I was released on January 5, 2005. The care given at the hospital was superb in all aspects.

I was able to resume most of my normal activities in a few weeks. In about one month, I was able to resume all of my day-to-day chores in addition to helping my son at his automotive repair business.

I would recommend Robotic Laparoscopic surgery by Dr. Lanteri to everyone with prostate cancer because it was less invasive than other procedures and shortened my recuperation time drastically.