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Why are urologists dismissive about Decipher?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 13 12:48pm | Replies (60)Comment receiving replies
The urologists also told me that Decipher was developed for liw risk patients to determine if they could go on AS. I understand that it dors not affect how surgery is conducted, but it seems they fon’t even think that it has an effect on overall prognosis.
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This doesn’t make any sense. The decipher test is used after cancer is found. It is not to determine whether or not active surveillance would work. The PSE test is something you use to figure out whether there is cancer there yet, and to pick AS and avoid a biopsy if it shows nothing.
I suppose if you had a person with only one or two Gleason 3+4 cores, A very low decipher could decide to go on active surveillance, But the test is More designed to figure out whether or not you’re going to have something come back soon after treatment.