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@wwsmith
You think semi annual biopsies are too much!
I had my first biopsy was 11/19/2009 it found nothing. Not even 3+3. Some PIN in one spot but nothing else.
My second biopsy was 1/7/2010 less than two months later. They took 10 cores. One was 3+4 none of the others had anything.
They did a CT scan and thought there might be something in my seminal vesicles so on 2/4/2010 I had a third biopsy. They took cores in the seminal vesicle area, and five other cores. 2 had 3+3 the others nothing. Seminal vesicles were clear, however. If they were not clear, they would’ve used radiation instead of surgery.
After surgery, they found I was a Gleason 4+3. Another case of biopsies not capable of finding everything.
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@jeffmarc I understand doing multiple back to back biopsies when you are first trying to discover cancer given lots of indicators, but when you already have one positive biopsy then semi annual follow-up biopsies seems a bit unusual. But I guess in this case it makes sense where a guy is trying to delay treatment as long as safely possible.