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Your experience during & after Transrectal Prostate Biopsy (TRUS)
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Nov 13, 2023 | Replies (39)Comment receiving replies
somi: all good advice above. You might want your husband to get the decipher test which is used by doctors to evaluate aggressiveness of the cancer. The biopsy material is good for a year but it is a viable way to get another alternative "opinion" of the tumor. The Decipher test report is also easy to understand and also indicates whether 1 or more types of treatments are recommended.
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Agree. Mine with biopsies was intermediate. Had Decipher and came back low risk. Thus my treatment plans recommendations went from radiation and hormone to radiation only.
If you have it done after your biopsies there is nothing you need to do and does not involve any tests or procedures done on you. They use the biopsies that were taken. A great test kind of expensive buy Medicare and my secondary insurance paid for it.