Gat Goren

I am a new member, and I am interested in the Gat Goren procedure. have been following the threads with great interest and I wish to express my gratitude to all you guys. you have been providing useful information, in the process raising important questions and points to hink about.

however, for new members there is a problem. the fact that there are now no less than four threads with many posts in each makes it difficult to follow items of interest or to arrive at even partial conclusions.and of course many followers of the posts are there in order to make up their minds which way to go.

it is therefore that I humbly (as a new member) wish to raise an idea which I hope is not totally impractical: establish a concentrated results excel table. by no means this is suggested as a replacement for the posts.

the way I see it, and I am sure there will be improved ideas coming from you:

- excel table divided into well defined columns, with rows for different contributor

- each person who had gone through a BPH procedure - be it GG, GL, any other - and is willing to participate - will enter his (not her, luckily for them) data.

- the data will include, separately in each column: name of person, type of procedure, conditions before , number of months since, current conditions, problems and difficulties during the procedure, same after the procedure, time to recover, cost if no insurance (w/o travel), and finally - recommended or not.

- each entry as short as possible

- if conditions are changing with time (rate of improvement, worsening conditions, etc.) additional rows will be added by the same person.


I believe the benefits of such condensed results, easy to comprehend and to compare, are obvious. I also hope filling the table is not too difficult - and perhaps the contributor himself will be forced to distill his conclusions and moreover, be able to easily compare his situation with that of others.

I know the forum moderator is the person to decide whether the idea is both desirable and practicable . I will therefore greatly appreciate any support from you guys! or boo me if it is a bad idea.

I had early on tried to get the GG guys to concentrate in one thread (which has become 4) just to be sure they don't get lost. The process is not actually a PCa subject, and many other members have commented that it is off topic. I see it as somewhat related, and the GG guys don't seem to have anywhere else to go. So lets keep it in the threads already established so new guys can follow them back.

And as mentioned, there is no support in the forum software for attachments regardless of subject, so not something we can agree or disagree with.