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Choosing Active Surveillance over any further treatment at this time
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Hi , thanks for the explanation about the free PSA number . Does the biopsy ( with the gleason score ) automatically come with the Decipher score ? If so what would be considered a " good " decipher score vs. a bad one ? If you don't mind me asking what was your decipher score ?
Thanks in advance !
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A Decipher test has to be specifically requested by your urologist and is a genomic test conducted on a cancerous core taken during your biopsy (assuming they find some).
Obviously, you only request the Decipher test if cancer is found in the biopsy.
The test genomically compares your cancer to that of 200,000+ men, in their database, and assigns a risk level as to the likelihood of your cancer to metastasize.
If you get to this point, you would also want to request the so called “Decipher GRID”, which is provided upon request for every test and gives a lot of other specific information regarding the genomic nature of your cancer cells.
A portion of my Decipher GRID report is attached. Their “Clinical-Genomic Model” rated my PCa as “Low Risk” and recommended AS….my “score” was 0.22.