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Prostate Health Index (PHI) results: Time for a second opinion?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jun 27 3:51pm | Replies (35)Comment receiving replies
Thank you again. My husband has a fantastic oncologist that he sees at Duke for his CLL. If we need an oncologist for this, if it turns out to be PCa, she would be someone we really have trust in, and are comfortable with.
We definitely will get a second opinion, and it will be with a urologist, not an NP.
We went to Triangle Urology Associates because we felt that Duke NP didn’t take hubby’s issue seriously. When his PSA came back at 16, and then PHI came back at 89.2, they should have immediately referred him to a urologist. Instead, the NP said, you have a 50% chance of having PCa. Schedule an MRI, then she would touch base via zoom six weeks after the MRI.
Definitely felt like she wasn’t taking hubby’s issue seriously.
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Looks like you are on a good plan. I had a similar experience that unfortunately allowed my PC to progress to metastatic. Without going into details, U of California Davis medical also did not take my condition seriously: “the urologists are pretty booked up, etc.”. I went to a second out of California health care system, was diagnosed and on treatment in two week. There is a lesson there. Actually several.