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That worked out well! It's great that you caught it early, while it was still low grade. ❤️
The type I'm talking about isn't the one that starts low-grade and develops later, but the one that starts already at the top of the scale (Gleason 8 or 9), is maybe near the outside of the prostate (??just guessing on this point), and somehow escapes the prostate quickly into the bloodstream to form distant metastases. That one is a really hard to catch in time, because there's almost no warning or build-up. I suspect it's overrepresented here in the forum, because we're the ones who are young enough to be online a lot (not that we exclusively own computer ability; my mother in her mid 80s is very Internet savvy, too), and we're lifers, so we keep coming back month after month, year after year. The people with 3+4 or 4+3 that's quickly resolved probably don't hang around more than a few months.