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The thing that actually concerns me more than anything is the lack of care/troublesome that the doctors are showing towards 2 completely contradicting reports.

I speak with U of M and they say we have to stick with our radiology department and their findings, which say no cancer and no biopsy. I said so are we to just ignore the Beaumont Radiology Report and pretend that didn't happen? I feel like I'm just tossing a coin enough times until I get the result I WANTED and stopping there, at least according to the way this is being presented. I asked U of M to see if they can have another radiologist read the imaging and they told me no need and also they don't even have any option in the system to request something like that. (This confused me as I thought maybe a quick call with radiology would have granted my request, but no).

MIU we have yet to speak with until the next appointment which is when we'll discuss these new findings. I did however call them to tell them the results to which they were very "meh" about as if not surprised. Where as I'm over here thinking this should be shocking or very surprising to them.

Is it me? Am I overreacting? Am I looking for them to be surprised but in reality this is common? I expected them to be very proactive the moment these new findings came in, as in not even wait on next scheduled appointments but rather have imaging read again or even order a new MRI right away because obviously something isn't right here.

I would think at this point another MRI would have to be performed, but I have to be honest that I don't think anybody can blame me in NOT trusting radiology reports after this experience. Let's say we do a new MRI and a new report comes in... Are we to trust that? I'm so confused at how this could happen. I'm at a point where with a new MRI I will request a report from 2 to 3 different locations.

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Call Beaumont Oncology and explain the situation and they will have an Oncologist review the MRI. Tell them you are considering surgery or radiation treatments based on MRI testing to date. During my initial MRIs taken on me to verify that PCa hadn't spread there were a couple of concerning incidental findings that were reported on the Beaumont MRI. I called the Oncologist who I spoke to about radiation treatments and she looked at the MRI while I was on the phone. She then sent to second Oncologist who conferred with Radiologist. They all agreed findings were most likely benign and amended MRI report. I did have to go back for a followup MRI after my RALP. This confirmed the amended report findings. Basically Beaumonts Oncology dept. bent over backwards to help me. I'd think they'd do the same in this case.