I don't want to scare you but I feel compelled to share my husband's story about waiting. My husband was diagnosed in June 07 with PC. We were referred to Ohio State as my husband wanted surgery with the DaVinci method. Both our family doctor and his urologist recommended this procedure and doctor. My husband was 57 when he was diagnosed with a Gleason score of 8 (4+4), cancer on right side only. Surgery was scheduled for November - the same reason we had to wait as for you - that's the quickest he could get on the surgery schedule. His Dr. at Ohio State said it would be no problem, we had a year to decide what to do. Must admit, it scared us to wait. He had is surgery on November 7, 2007. His first PSA reading the end of January was 18, yes 18, not 1.8! A blood test repeated 2 weeks later and it was 24. The last reading was 40! Needless to say we are back at Ohio State with an oncologist now for further treatment. He is currently on Casodex and starting hormone therapy in April. He had had a bone scan, CT scan and other tests done in September of 07 and his tumor was a T2, contained in the prostate. His pathology report came back a T3a, it had escaped in that period of time. Makes us wonder now if we should have been so passive about the treatment. Good luck!