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Old 03-28-2023, 12:12 PM
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Get the test and ignore the statistics, statistics have outliers. If you happen to be one of the outliers, and blindly follow the statistics, your decision could kill you. My PSA was only 2.9 but the biopsy showed a Gleason score of 7. The final biopsy after open radical prostatectomy showed stage T3A cancer, which most likely would have killed me by now if I followed the statistics and didn’t get the biopsy. That was 6 1/2 years ago and my PSA remains undetectable (cancer free) : ). I was very lucky to have one of the best Urology Oncologist Surgeons in the world at Mass General do the surgery the old school way (open versus robotics) and get clean margins.

GET THE TEST!
Thanks for the information, you are correct, everyone is different. Of course there are risk involved whether or not you take the test. We all must decide how to proceed in a way that is most comfortable for each of us individually. My PSA is just over 4 and my urologist wanted to do the 12 sample test. At 75 yo, no thanks.