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Canceling Radical Prostectomy In favor of AS

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So, in total 8/12 cores are positive?

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pv001 | @pv001 | May 19 9:20pm

8 out of 16 (they did standard 12 plus 4 in the leison identified in the MRI). All positive were on the left side.

happydappy | @happydappy | May 19 9:20pm

Don't some claim that a lot of 3+3 cores, and/or PSA over 10 leads to suggestions of treatment rather than AS? I thought I heard that in Dr. Epstein's video that is posted by @jeffmarc in this thread. I have a friend who had one 3+4 core and a bunch of 3+3 cores. He was put in AS at first but then his PSA started creeping up over the next six months and that's when his doctor's all advised to treat which he did.