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PSA/MRI not too bad, Biopsy not too good. What??

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Thanks, Brian. 2200 combinations is mind-blowing! Since MRI and PSA weren't very good indicators, I keep thinking the only way to know what's happening inside the prostate is to remove it. Big decisions ahead for me.

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brianjarvis | @brianjarvis | Sep 1 1:33pm

Perhaps. Buy do we have to be absolutely sure before treatment?

I don’t know of any other medical procedure where we first amputate “just to be absolutely sure.” The axiom in medicine used to be “first do no harm.” We should follow that axiom with prostate cancer treatments.

There are a dozen different datapoints related to prostate cancer we can potentially collect before making a treatment decision. We should make use of all of those diagnostics.

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