Ronan, I don’t have an answer for you about the procedure however I’d like to ask a couple questions and share something I heard and found to be amazingly true. So 1 will you share where you live? 2 how did you find out about the Genomic testing?
Maybe you live out west or in a large city or a metropolitan area that include a few bigger cities?
I was very quickly disappointed with my VA doctors recommendation because he was suggesting what I considered to be old news and old procedures. Doing my own research I went outside of the area where I lived and had procedures done that he never knew about and he still doesn’t care about them. I’m sorry if my opinions disappoint others but I’m confident in what I found out and to me it is obvious that medicine is dynamic and it is changing/advancing often.
One of the best suggestions I ever received was from the president of a men’s group who advised me, more like warned me about support groups by saying that groups tend to rally around the procedure that the majority did. That same night that he warned me I found that the group I went to all recommended surgery. That’s the last thing that I would do. In fact that’s probably the only thing I would never do.
The other piece of advice that he gave me was to have the Genomic test. It would have been done but they want a biopsy less than 2 years old. I’m a couple of months on the wrong side of that number.
I also think that the future of cancer treatment is in immunotherapy and Spicer
Type in Spicer and 60 minutes if you haven’t heard of it