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@vircet First Gleason 3 + 4 = 7 IS NOT UNFAVOURABLE INTERMEDATE . Gleason 4 + 3 = 7 is . And yes you have to wait several months 4 to 6 usually befforee for example a 2nd Confirmatoory Biopsy or other treatments . It allows for the swelling etc to get back to normal .
If you are considering radiation , consider the 5 Session Monotherapy SBRT treatment - Mon-Wed-Fri and Mon - Wed the next week . No hormones . Insist on a rectum spacer , SpaceOr even though with the MRI Guided , not the UT Guided machine you can get smaller margins down to 2mm as opposed to 5mm .
Good Luck.
p.s. Have to purchased and studied the highly recommended book on prostate cancer by Dr. Patrick Walsh " Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer " .? or watched the the U - Tube videos by Dr. Mark Scholz or read the PROTEC T Report .?
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@clandeboye1 I also thought that t I shouldn't be "unfavorable intermediate." However, one of the other health professionals I asked indicated that notwithstanding GS 3+4 = 7, because 8 of 14 cores tested positive, it could be considered unfavorable. If only 6 of 14 were positive, certainly my GS 7 would be "favorable intermediate." Perhaps, even the professionals may look at my GS 3+4 differently? Yes, I read Dr. Walsh's book, the latest edition.