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@phildphs
Thanks for your reply. Wow 15 biopsy’s😳
I am definitely not looking forward to my first one. Did you just have a few days of passing blood in your urine ?

I really dread the phone call with the results even more..that is very nerve racking to me. How many lesions do you have ? From everything that I have read once you start with a biopsy it seems that it is a never ending thing. Seems like they should just remove the prostate at birth so we don’t have to go through this lol.
Wonder how many biopsys come back completely negative instead of Gleason 3+3 ?

I know a lot of men just jump to having their prostate removed instead of worrying about AS. I would definitely wait and put it off as long as I could like you.

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@indyguy in my view if a biopsy comes back 3+3 you have the luxury of plenty of time to figure out what, if anything, you want to do. Now days the standard of care for 3+3 seems to be active surveillance whereas 20 years ago men were very frequently being treated for 3+3. It was almost heresy to do active surveillance 20 years ago. Today things get murkier if the biopsy comes back 3+4. It took me a lot of research to understand the risks and benefits of whether or not to treat a 3+4. The facts are different in each case so comprehensive testing and research is necessary. There are many excellent videos on YouTube. For a start try Dr. Mark Scholz, Dr. Laurence Klotz and Dr. Cooperman. It is a lot of work to figure out all of this. Finally as to your question about passing blood in the urine for a few days, that did sometimes happen to me but was never a problem. There can also blood in the semen for a month or two but that was not a problem. I never had an infection after a biopsy, possibly just by luck.