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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 10 6:24pm | Replies (648)Comment receiving replies
Watchful waiting with a 4+3 makes no sense. The reason they want to do another biopsy is because your Gleason score has probably increased, more cores probably have cancer, and they want to see what’s going on. Watchful waiting with a 4+3 is just asking for a short life. Dying of prostate cancer is extremely painful you don’t wanna go there, that would be harder on your wife than treatment,. You need to get treatment and SBRT radiation is the least invasive procedure with the shortest time of treatment.
You should also have a recent PSMA pet scan done to make sure that it has not spread out of the prostate now. With a PSA of 22 it may have spread.
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