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Getting PSA results with impossible fluctuation: What's up?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 26 1:46pm | Replies (45)Comment receiving replies
@jeffmarc Yes, active surveillance sounds more like a medical term and the word active justifies calling you back every three months for a check up. My multiparametric MRI of the prostate is scheduled for 2/19. I will then bring the results to Mayo Clinic in Phoenix for a consultation on NanoKnife procedure on March 9th. No radiation or chemo for me. Im also considering TULSA Pro.
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No one would give you chemo unless you had multiple metastasis throughout your body that needed to be treated. If that were true, they would not touch you with TulsaPRO or NanoKnife. That might also want you get a PSMA pet scan too, to see if there is any spread or cancer.
With you only Having 3+3 there’s no reason to do any treatment. At best, the MRI can only tell if there might be something there. You wouldn’t want to get treated for a maybe.
Active Surveillance would require a PSA test every three or six months nothing else. Once a year you might get an MRI or a biopsy to see if it’s grown or spread. What they’re looking for is a doubling rate of your PSA to see whether something is necessary to do more than test.
They would want a biopsy if the MRI showed tumors. Hard to treat it if you don’t know what it is. MRI Results come out with a PIRADS score, Something over 4 may be cancer something under 4 may be cancer, Neither may be cancer. Hard to treat if you don’t know the answer.