Professor Vaibhav Modgil

And they followed this group through.

Now, the first statistic, and these men were between 50 and 69, the first statistic, which is really, really important because we're obsessed with this idea of, oh, if you have a radical prostatectomy, it will give you erectile dysfunction.

67% of those men, when that study started, reported an erection that was sufficient for intercourse.

Nobody had touched them yet.

So that means a third of them didn't have erections that they felt were good enough for intercourse already.

This is even before we've done anything.

In the active monitoring group, who again, no specific treatment, just monitoring, at six months, 52% had erections that were good enough for intercourse.

So what's going on there?

They haven't had any treatment whatsoever.

In the radical prostatectomy group,

Only 12% of men had erections that were good enough for intercourse at six months.

And in the radiotherapy group, who had hormones as well, only 22% had erections that were good enough for intercourse.

And if you take it one step further, six years following a radical prostatectomy, 17% of men said that they could have intercourse.

Yes.

Right.

So what does that tell you?

It tells you that when we treat men for prostate cancer, we absolutely leave them with very significant quality of life issues.

And so treating men for prostate cancer, I'm all up for that.

And I think that's great.

And we've come such a long way.