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Thank you for the book recommendation. I have so many tabs open on my device from different sites as I research. I hope it has some current information on intraductal cancer. My husband is by nature a non worrier and I want to know everything.
I am diagnosed with GG2 and Gleason same 3+4=7 back in March. I’m just two weeks postop from a RARP. Prior to surgery I had biopsy and 12 of 18 samples were positive. The good news is the borders were clean. The bad news is my morphology are large cribiform pattern 4 and an atypical intraductal proliferation of suspicious nature.
So my provider remarked that this was the best case scenario choosing surgery as my biopsy showed the intraductal but not cribiform. So often PSA’s for a year minimum. My decision was removal, and after finding cribiform I’m convinced as well as my surgeon that if I watched this my outcome would not as good.
Michael Lyons, MBA, BSN, RN
Thank you for your reply! So sorry to hear of your sad experiences. Sincerely hope all will be well going forward. Yes you are right about there being others who need the surgery more urgently than us and I do thank God that our case is not so urgent. My huband is very cool about it, atleast outwardly. Que sera sera. I am the worrying proactive one trying to find answers. In the meantime keeping my fingers crossed.