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Originally Posted by brewbob
If you have a high psa.... have an MRI to locate the tumor...then have a fusion guided biopsy.
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It’s not always a high PSA that warrants the biopsy. My PSA was under 3.0, but my primary care physician felt a node during routine screening at my annual wellness visit. She saved my life by doing that rather uncomfortable screening that many choose not to have. I had a Gleason score of 7 and the final cancer grade was T3A after the prostatectomy (the cancer had broken outside the prostate wall). I was a walking dead man and it was only a matter of time, even though I had no symptoms. Fortunately, she caught it just in time and I had one of the best urologist ontology surgeons in the world, at Mass General, do an open procedure, where he could actually feel the tumor with his fingers and cut clean margins around it (something that a robot can’t necessarily do). Seven and a half years later I still get a PSA every six months and the results have always been undetectable. Although I’ll never technically be 100% out of the woods, I’m about as close to being cancer free as possible. Plus, many of my aging friends are suffering with the issues related to an enlarged prostate. That’s an issue I’ll never have to worry about now : )