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Grade 5 prostate Cancer: Is this a death sentence?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 2 9:51am | Replies (36)Comment receiving replies
A Grade Group 5 is a Gleason 9 (4+5) or (5+4) or a Gleason 10 (5+5).
> The NCCN guidelines have recommendations for treating these very high risk prostate cancers. (See attached.)
The PSMA PET scan will result in a SUVmax score. (Make sure you get the score(s).
For now the best course of action is to wait, study, and get up to speed on the nuances of prostate cancer, diagnostics, and treatments.
As for a death sentence, prostate cancer has one of the lowest mortality rates of all cancers. (Not that it’s any real solace, but he’s more likely to die from something else than from prostate cancer.)
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What she wrote is a little confusing. She specifically said the MRI showed a grade 5 tumor that’s PIRADS 5 not grade group 5.
I think we’re still not sure what the Gleason score is.
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@brianjarvis Thanks so much, Brian. Very encouraging. I know so much about my own EGFR lung cancer and virtually nothing about prostate cancer. I will get up to speed.