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PSA went from 3.9 in November to 4.3 yesterday
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The ultrasound might be the biopsy. They could do the ultrasound only but while they are in there it would make sense to do the whole thing. It's likely the same device that goes up in you, just a difference if if they pull that dreaded trigger 12 times.
The PSE is just an enhanced PSA test, the likely replacement for it would be my guess, but it's still three times the cost of a standard and cheap PSA so it's step 2 generally.
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The PSE test and PSA test have different purposes.
The PSE is designed to detect cancer in the bloodstream not the PSA number. The PSA number doesn’t detect cancer and a high PSA means cancer in only 32% of cases according to Episwitch, compared to 93% with the PSE test.