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PSA 8.6, MRI PIRADS 5, Biopsy scheduled, so a bit worried

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: May 14 12:41pm | Replies (47)
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@wellness100

PSMA Pet scan is probably the most accurate. Biopsy is the best as long as you find the tumor. That may not be as simple, particularly if you MRI cannot find anything.
Dont mind me. I am just another layman trying to make some sense of the whole thing.

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castrol | @castrol | Jan 28 9:02am

A urologist I met some time ago told me that in the pre-MRI era almost all biopsies were negative. In fact, doing a biopsy of a prostate with a clean MRI means sampling at random!. If there is a small cancer, finding it will just be a matter of luck. If only cancer-free areas are sampled, the result will be a clean biopsy, even if cancer is present. So in that case not even a biopsy could give us an answer that we can trust 100%. And this is another reason why I have so far given up on doing the biopsy.
Yesterday I contacted my urologist. He told me that it is possible to do the biopsy under anesthesia, but he asked me to do a new MRI first. I will do it. I therefore have to contact the radiologist and in doing so I will take the opportunity to ask him if a PSMA PET scan could be right for me.
Thanks to every body and good luck.

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