14 1/2 years ago, I had a third biopsy and they found a couple of the samples were 3+4 prostate cancer. I had surgery a few months later and it was actually 4+3. Two years ago I found out I was BRCA2, which sort of explains why it keeps coming back, four relapses so far. I will be 77 real soon.

1.5 years ago, my brother had 4+3 in a biopsy. At 76 he had radiation and so far nothing has come back. He does not have BRCA2 but my father died of prostate cancer so he had a propensity for it.

They didn’t have a decipher score back then. And I didn’t go on any drugs for about six years. Had to have radiation 3 1/2 years after my surgery, still no drugs for another 2 1/2 years when I finally was put on Lupron because my PSA started rising.

I’m explaining all of this because you are a 4+3 and 77 years old. You are so much more likely to die of some thing else rather than prostate cancer. There are so many different things they can do to treat you, new technologies are coming up all the time. Look forward to the many years you will have. The only thing you have to be concerned with are the side effects of the drugs you take not the chance that you’re gonna die soon from PC.