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Biopsy Number 5: What is going on?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 2 5:40pm | Replies (13)

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Do you know how big your prostate is? A large prostate along with BPH could cause the high PSA issues you’ve been having. I know somebody who had a huge prostate, his PSA was always around 50 but a biopsy never found anything. Have you had any BPH problems? Have they ever put you on an antibiotic for your prostate? Those can affect your PSA.

A PIRADS 2 Barely Calls for a biopsy.

Good to hear you’re having another MRI before the next one.

Sometimes the cancer is in a spot that is not detected by the MRI. You can get a PSE test to see if you have cancer in your bloodstream and then a biopsy makes more sense. The PSE test is 94% accurate. If it finds something then they should do a much more thorough biopsy, more cores, To see if there’s something anywhere in your prostate.

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@jeffmarc Thanks for the reply! I do have BPH, but my PSA is still out of range for the size of the gland. I will definitely ask about a PSE.