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Rising PSA - next step options
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 28 3:27pm | Replies (34)Comment receiving replies
I wonder whatever happened to DRE (digital rectal exam)? A well-trained Urologist can tell a lot from just feeling the prostate .... and it's much cheaper than an MRI and faster than monitoring PSAs!
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I don't believe anything has "happened" to DREs.
In my case, since my routinely checked PSA was on the high side, I was referred to a urologist who indeed performed the DRE (don't know why my PCP couldn't have / didn't do it).
Based on his finding a nodule, I was then referred for a scan, which led to the biopsy, and the rest, as they say, will be history...