It seems the latest whiz-bang Prostate Cancer Treatment, minimally invasive robotic assisted surgery, used in place of the normal prostatectomy, open surgery which relies upon the surgeons skills only, is not all that the manufacturers and those financially involved in its development or application, would have us believe.

Serious side effects are now being identified and made public. Major ailments such as incontinence, erectile dysfunction and impotence and even loss of faecal control.

And so it seems, prostate cancer patients are again being placed in harms way, as guinea pigs, to unknowingly test and prove the efficacy of new equipment and surgical procedures.

Which proves once again, my contention that Allopathic medicine is not now, and never was, based on scientifically proven methods and practices but on peer to peer shared experiences and general agreement within medical associations. And for that, surgeons need people to practice their art on. That’s you and me. Some would call that progress. I say it is bordering on the criminal and in thirty years time, that is how I believe history will record it, just as we ourselves look back on the medical procedures of yesteryear.

The following article, from Track.in News, is quite refreshing as it candidly identifies previously hidden problems associated with robotic prostate cancer surgery. Click on the linked title here: Robotic prostate cancer surgery leaving men ‘impotent’

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