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Received the news on Halloween. I have prostate cancer. Need advice.
I previously had 2 benign biopsies in 2024. Urologist/Oncologist asked to follow up in a year. So on September 2025, I did PSA (5.4) and MRI (2 legions PI-RADS3, and PI-RADS4). These 2 legions are similar in size with the previous 2 MRI's from 2024.
Doctor ordered a biopsy. On Halloween day, the report came and it shows out of 18 cores, there are 2 Gleason 6, and 1 Gleason 7 (3+4), which is with 40% core, and G4 is 10%.
I am scheduled to see my Urologist/Oncologist on Wednesday. I will ask for a Decipher or Polaris test and a PSMA scan. Maybe a genetic test to check BRCA1, BRCA2 genes?
I am not sure what else to ask from the doctor. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
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@cward0624 , @frank1956
Options should be stay on AS as long as one can, then Tulsa Pro (maybe hifu in a few cases, and maybe a new one called vanquish), then as last resorts are RP or radiation. Tulsa Pro is in a new form since mid- 2023 not many places have it. You may have to travel somewhere, that is not that big a deal, use AirBnB places to stay during procedure if needed.
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1 Reaction@lyricw OK…I read the complete study twice and nowhere does it talk about the phone being in the front hip pocket - even though the photo at the top of the article is a man’s denim clad hips with a cellphone poking out of it… totally misleading, isn’t it?
Also, they compared PCa cases using cordless phones as well, not just mobile. They claim the highest grade cancers occur in men who used either type of phone…really? How many men today use a landline phone? I have one and seldom use it.
Officeworkers, unless they are using headsets, almost always use their cellphones, even with a landline sitting right in front of them.
Also, they tried to equate the highest Gleason scores to phone use…and failed because their rationale is akin to saying, ‘ A large cohort of Men who breathed air in their homes, had high Gleason scores…’
That said, nothing would surprise me concerning brain cancer incidence in the older satellite type phones - the power was continuous and the antenna was your head!!
BTW, I had never used a cell phone in my life and rarely used a cordless one up until the day of my diagnosis of Gleason 4+3 unfavorable at age 64; It is only over the last 4 yrs that I use one….so??
I am not a fan of high frequency radio waves zipping all around us, PFOA’s (which the article also mentions) and other environmental factors as yet unknown, but there is no solution to these modern problems other than living off the grid like a hermit…not gonna do that with what little time I have left! Great find, BTW…
Phil
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2 ReactionsThere is a HUGE difference in the frequencies used by landline cordless and cell phones as well as the amount of transmitted power each can generate.. And that means a HUGE difference in effect (which is mostly tissue heating anyway as they are BOTH non-ionizing radiation (nothing in common with gamma rays, x-rays or any of those).
That "study" is garbage
@kenhorse I think you have a lot more knowledge on this front than I do, so I am glad you weighed in, Ken.
If anything, they came up with a hypothesis and then worked backwards to ‘prove’ their theory. That’s not a scientific study and unfortunately, neither is the questionnaire model where you ask people to be honest about their own habits…good luck with that!!
Phil