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@somi

Thank you for welcoming me to the group. I’ve actually joined for my husband who has an elevated PSA and symptoms (he wakes up once, sometimes twice at night to urinate.) He’s 71, and his PSA has steadily risen, 2.8 in 2019, 6.71 in 2022, and in 2023, 36.4. He went to the urologist and nothing was detected on DRE. The doctor ordered labs, another PSA and an MRI with and without contrast. He refuses to do the contrast MRI because a radiologist friend of his told him that he has lost 3 patients due to allergic reactions. I would like to know if any of you have been diagnosed with the non-contrast MRI only, or if any other tests were needed. Thanks so much - this is all very frightening.

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Somi: there are a couple of other contrast choices that minimize any allergic reaction. Ask your doctor. A Center of excellence Radiation oncologist told me if you can see it, you can treat it. Good imaging through the whole process is really important.

Once the MRI of the prostate is done, and read correctly, then the biopsy is used to confirm whether cancer exists or not and other details. Use the biopsy material for a decipher genetic test to evaluate aggressiveness.