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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: 1 day ago | Replies (22)
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Once cancer has been found inside the prostate, the chief treatment issues are
1) how best to eradicate it in the confines of the prostate itself; and
2) did any get out or is likely to have done so.
That 2nd one is what rightly most concerns your doc.
If the cancer is prostate confined they can snuff it there,
If it's out and about, they still have to nail it in the prostate but they also then have to hunt to kill it to wherever it's gone in your body.
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Thanks for the input. It all makes sense, however my hope was to use the information from the PET Scan to make a better decision on treatment. If a biopsy needle is only 1.2 mm, and the entire area of a prostate around 250 mm, then it is difficult to determine the amount of cancer in the prostate from say 30 needle biopsies. Especially if you only have one needle biopsy that was a 3+4, and the 4 only represented < 5% of the sample. I would have liked to put a value on the amount cancer present through the illumination of cancer in the prostate from the PET Scan. I am unable to do that. I did see comments related to SUVMax score while I will ask about.