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Maybe a stupid question on my part since we are talking about Mayo here, but are you sure that it was a 3T multi-parametric MRI, and did they use intravenous contrast?
Sometimes they can't use the 3T because of a small amount of metal somewhere inside the patient's body, and so they have to use the 1.5T instead.
But I think that the commenter who suggested that perhaps the radiologist just missed some suspicious nodules that the urologist picked up on the MRI images makes sense as a possible explanation, assuming the biopsy was an MRI fusion biopsy.

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@jercalif Radiologist report says "Multiparametric MRI of the prostate was performed at 3 Tesla with surface coil. Hi resolution T2WI, DWI/ADC and DCE imaging with IV contrast performed". Don't know if that is 3T or 1.5T. No metal inside of me.

Biopsy was a transperineal MRI fusion.

After RP, two lesions were found. Sizes about 1cm x .5cm x .5cm and .3cm x .3cm x .3cm. I dunno, maybe one was too small to see on MRI?