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Is this too long to wait for a biopsy?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Nov 24, 2025 | Replies (24)

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(What were the PIRADS scores of your lesions of concern?)

A couple of options that I would consider:
1. If you do decide to wait until 1/27/26, (as others have mentioned) this would buy you time to collect additional information: e.g., % Free PSA, PSA Doubling Time, biomarker (genomic) test, and genetic (germline) test.

2. Can you get the biopsy done somewhere else that can do it sooner? (You can always find another urologist. Earlier this year my oldest brother had an elevated PSA; his urologist wanted to do a blind biopsy. I recommended to my brother that he find another urologist. That 2nd urologist also wanted to do a blind biopsy. I then recommended to my brother to have his family doctor refer him to a urologist at the local major cancer center near where he lives; that 3rd urologist got him in within a couple of weeks for an MRI and then a couple of weeks later for an MRI-guided biopsy. My brother has since already finished his radiation treatments. Another benefit of that path was that he basically got a 2nd opinion on the MRI.) I went with my brother when he saw that 2nd urologist; that place seemed to me to be a production line. We did see that urologist, but we left there with no intention of following up.

You have options.

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