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PSA/MRI not too bad, Biopsy not too good. What?? [updated]
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jan 21 2:39pm | Replies (48)Comment receiving replies
@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.
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@jercalif This forum is for everyone, both Mayo patients and others. So you are very welcome, definitely not an interloper. I'd guess most people here are non-Mayo.
Yes, I got the MRI images and software, but I never even tried to look at them, I only passed along to doctors. I'll have to go back and take a look, as a non-medical person had no idea that it would even make sense to me. It's all moot now, my prostate was gone on 12/16/25, 3 month PSA is in March, undetectable is the hope from this point forward.
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@jercalif
People in this forum are from all over the world. Many of us do not use Mayo, Probably more that don’t use it then do.
I’m in coastal California.