Connect
← Return to Journey begins - age 51, PSA 72
Discussion
Journey begins - age 51, PSA 72
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Nov 7 8:27pm | Replies (43)Comment receiving replies
I tend to agree. It's not like you're dying tomorrow, but giving those lesions time to develop is not a good idea. He's right in immediately suggesting a biopsy - it's the definitive way to establish if there's cancer there - and the MRI means that when you do get the biopsy done, they can zero in on the exact location of the lesions, to get good samples.
Might be different in your country, but in New Zealand, I was put on a biopsy waiting list in May 2023, as soon as the MRI came back, and had the biopsy in June. But it was an agonising 6 weeks to get the biopsy results that confirmed cancer.
(edited to say that prostate cancer is one of the slowest-growing cancers, so it may not get worse as quickly as you may be imagining. It's the sloth of cancers)
Replies to "I tend to agree. It's not like you're dying tomorrow, but giving those lesions time to..."
Connect
"prostate cancer is one of the slowest-growing cancers, so it may not get worse as quickly as you may be imagining. It's the sloth of cancers"
True most of the time, but there's a fast-growing variant that affects about 1/20 of us, including me. It's often at an advanced stage already when it's diagnosed and tends to hit young (late 40s to early 60s).
That's what took Johnny Ramone, Frank Zappa, and many others (famous and not famous) from us, but fortunately for me, treatments have advanced remarkably in the past few years.