Jim’s doctoring at Mayo Rochester. I’m actually retired from working on Mayo 18th floor in the Endocrinology department. So Mayo is our home clinic/health care. We live just outside of Winona, MN, about a 45 drive from Mayo. You mention great health care institutions. Mayo (Rochester?), John’s Hopkins (where Jim got a second opinion on his biopsy, showing a cribriform morphology) and had a Decipher test with a 0.8 high risk score. His Gleason was 3+4. The cribriform and Decipher make it more worrisome but his surgeon believes he has a good chance of a “cure.” It is disconcerting to know how many have recurrences, though. We initially thought HDR brachytherapy would be a good treatment. But when the decipher score came back high, we decided on surgery, knowing that the entire prostate could then be biopsied.

Sorry that Tom had a recurrence. So I imagine he’s on some sort of treatment again? I really hope all goes well for you two!