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Choosing Active Surveillance over any further treatment at this time
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Are these YOUR Gleason scores? Don’t see a biopsy in your history. Without a biopsy you can’t compare these scenarios to your particular situation.
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Agreed. Also number of cores positive and % of 4 equally important. two people with Gleason 7 but one having 9 out of 12 positive cores has a very different risk profile to the other having just 1 out of 12 positive.
And then there is the risk tolerance of the individual. Huge variation here too.
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I agree with your question. Without a Gleason score, you really don't know what level of cancer you have or that you even have it. After the Gleason score which requires biopsies then you can get into Decipher, PSMA, etc.
I don't see where the poster had a biopsy and got a Gleason score. So, like I was when I got my MRI, they found suspicious areas. I was given a 70% chance that it was prostate cancer but until my biopsies were done, I was not a confirmed patient with prostate cancer thus not level, stage, type, etc.
I was 76 when I got diagnosed and got radiation treatments. It is a personal decision to have or not have treatments. Life expectancy is a statistic and does not reflect what your life span will be. Some individuals live into their 100s, some die very young, so statistics are just a mixture of numbers coming out to be a normal number. The type of medical and mental care you get goes a long way to your life expectancy along with self-care.