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Biopsy v non-Biopsy: Can you be diagnosed without a biopsy?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 9 9:14am | Replies (70)Comment receiving replies
Mark Emberton is an advocate of using MRI and PSMA to avoid biopsy. He doesn't advocate no treatment though. If I was so critical of my caregivers I was refusing to submit to a biopsy, why would I submit to any treatment they were going to proceed with? And if I was going to refuse treatment, what is the point of seeing them, ever again?
Anyway, for what its worth, here is a w year old interview with Emberton: https://www.youtube.com/watch
And a more recent interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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@climateguy "If I was so critical of my caregivers I was refusing to submit to a biopsy, why would I submit to any treatment they were going to proceed with? And if I was going to refuse treatment, what is the point of seeing them, ever again?"
I just found this thread & your statement, which I totally agree with. In the past couple months, this forum has exploded with the number of people looking for "alternate cures", as I would describe them. Everyone has to make their own decisions, but it's part of a trend in current society of mistrusting established science, & I find that especially troubling for us in the long term if it is not reversed. That's probably all I should say.
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@climateguy I can see that this approach could work for surgery. But for RT the information in the biopsy, including a subsequent Decipher anslysis, is crucial.