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If you have a prostatectomy, do they usually do a decipher test?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 16 7:58pm | Replies (14)
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@jeffmarc

Some people need that, Your doctors are the ones to talk to about it. Some doctors will delay it for a while. Some want it right away. If you have surgery are there clean margins, If not, you may have radiation sooner.

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johndavis60 | @johndavis60 | Apr 16 7:58pm

I asked my urologist about decipher testing in my case.
Since I already decided on a treatment (prostatectomy ) and we know aggressiveness from biopsy, the decipher testing wouldn’t really provide much value to me. However, depending on how things go with the RP, if I need more treatment, they feed all my various attributes (ex. Gleason score) into an algorithm that helps guide the next phase of treatment.

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