Am I a Candidate for Prostate Surgery?
Short answer: Candidates are usually: people with hyperplasia and obstructive symptoms that do not improve with medication, or cancer with a surgical indication. Final candidacy is decided by the surgeon after an evaluation with tests.
Am I a candidate for prostate surgery?
Usual indications
Hyperplasia with obstructive symptoms that do not improve with medication, or cancer with a surgical indication.
The evaluation
It includes your medical history and tests; sometimes imaging. It does not depend only on what the patient wants.