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Newly diagnosed with prostate cancer: What might I be in for?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 23 6:42am | Replies (43)
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@bens1
I am not a medical professional but I keep coming back to what you have mentioned in your posts. Prostrate cancer can be at the microcells level. You can't do a biopsy on entire prostrate thus even a minute area may have cancer cells not being addressed unless entire prostrate is treated.

Both consultations I had (Mayo, and UFHPTI) stress would treat entire prostrate and margins to make sure they treated all areas that may have cancer celss that did not showed up on the MRIs and biopsies.

I am not sure of the very latest PSMA test can detect better but I am glad my R/O was not going to take a chance he was missing something.

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jeffmarc | @jeffmarc | Oct 17 10:24am

Your comments are quite appropriate. I was just hearing earlier this week about someone who had a Gleason seven after biopsy then they had an RP, following the RP their Gleason score was changed to nine because somewhere in the prostate there was much more serious cancer.

This reinforces why, when doing radiation or other techniques, they really needs the whole prostate to be treated.

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