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Thanks everyone. It's a double edged sword. I received my biopsy results just a couple of days after my procedure. When I told the urologist I already knew he seemed a little upset. And it was a punch in the gut for me. It will be almost a month before I see him to get my decipher score and pet scan results. Just a little anxious I guess. After my pet scan she was checking the scans and I peeked. Saw a bunch of bright red with one bright yellow spot. Didn't know what I was looking at but thinking the worst. I keep telling myself, live in the moment, one day at a time. I'm 66 and not ready to throw in the towel.
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There are a bunch of spots in your body that produce PSMA. As a result, those spots are known and ignored by the doctors. Looking at a scan without knowing that can be scary.
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@nrfuls66
Sorry to hear your biopsy results.
If you have a Gleason 8, you have PCa that you will probably want to treat.
The PSMA Pet should confirm PCa in the prostate and rule in or out PCa elsewhere, which impacts treatment choices.
Patrick Walsh MD's book Surviving Prostate Cancer 2023 ed was my resource Bible, together with free Patient Guides from the Prostate Cancer Foundation pcf.org (download and/or hard copy).
Best wishes.