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Anesthesia for a Prostate Biopsy

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 15 6:30pm | Replies (40)
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@klem55

I have just had an MRI scan and then needed a petscan. I now need a biopsy. My question is does the petscan identify the presence of actual cancer or just that there is something there that needs to be further investigated?

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trusam1 | @trusam1 | Mar 9 7:42am

Imaging studies (CT, MRI, PET, etc) can be "suggestive of" or "correlated with" cancer, but NOT diagnostic. For that, you need to look at the cells under a microscope, which requires a biopsy or surgical speciman.

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Mar 15 2:09pm

@klem55, did you have your biopsy in the meantime?

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