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Old 03-29-2023, 06:04 AM
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Thumbs up I agree with you 100%. I had a 3.4 PSA. Ended up win a Gleason 9.
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Originally Posted by tophcfa View Post
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!
I agree with you 100%. I had a 3.4 PSA. Ended up win a Gleason 9.