I agree find a doctor that has done thousands of operations. My doctor assured me that he was an expert at this surgery. I was favoring radiation at first. I asked my doctor (surgeon) many questions. One thing that swayed my decision was the doctor’s comment “If you do radiation treatments first, AND it doesn’t work, the surgery is 10 times harder”. I asked why. He stated that the prostate and surrounding tissues change from the radiation and become a more gelatinous like mass. It is harder to surgically cutout the where the prostate gland from some of the surrounding tissues. That changed my mind. I also had 39 radiation treatments after the surgery because after surgery laboratory dissection found the the cancer was at the edge of the prostate. Just had my check up yesterday and have been 5 years clear. Knock on wood.

I would ask your doctor about the surgery first approach and see what he thinks. Good luck in the process.
Ron