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PSA/MRI not too bad, Biopsy not too good. What?? [updated]
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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?
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@jeff1963
3 Tesla = 3T
So your smallest "lesion" was 3mm, and my only "nodule" was 4mm... I don't know the difference in the terminology but the size is similar.
Were you able to obtain your imaging so that you can view it?
I obtained mine by simply asking... In my case it includes a software program called Gearview.exe... allows me to see exactly what the radiologist sees and manipulate and mark up the images exactly as the radiologist would be able to. The radiologist didn't mark my 4 mm nodule on the MRI images, but I was able to find it pretty easily...and I have a severely enlarged prostate that is 57 mm across.
I'm kind of an interloper here because I'm in extreme Northern California... Perhaps this forum is only for Mayo patients... But the fact that you were able to get a transperineal biopsy illustrates the advantage of living near a major metropolitan area.