Is it possible for you to go to a center of excellence and get treatment there? It sounds like you’re not getting enough options where you’re at. There are treatments besides surgery and radiation.

I would think they would want to have an MRI to find out what’s going on. This may just be a financial decision on the part of your doctors. Another set of doctors may determine totally different choices.

Did they give you a Gleason score on the core that came back positive? Did they tell you what percent positive it was and what grade it was percentage wise? These are things that can help you determine whether or not you can stay an active surveillance.

Prostate cancer frequently causes no pain and you will not even notice it’s there until one day it does. At that point, it is quite advanced usually, You don’t want to go there. See another doctor and get that MRI.