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With the Gleason score, the higher number (4+3) is your Gleason score. Your statistics about only...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1238220/

Discussion: Prostate cancer T3b: Anyone else had radiation and what was outcome?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 16 11:16am

I had brachytherapy in 2009. I had a biopsy of my prostate in December 2023. 12...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1183439/

Discussion: Enzalutamide (Xtandi): Anyone have experience with this drug?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Dec 2, 2024

Excellent. Finally, finally, have my PSMA PET scan scheduled for December 12. Given that my PSA...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1181766/

Discussion: Cribriform cells: Does their presence change treatment approach?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Nov 29, 2024

Thanks a ton @retireditguy and @robertmizek, good info both of you. I was wracking my brain...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1114092/

Discussion: Gleason 6 But high decipher score.

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 29, 2024

@hanscasteels I am a Prostate cancer patient of exactly one year. I've had the PSA, Digital...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1287929/

Discussion: The Waiting Room: A Post Treatment Parable for the Terminally Stable

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 23 7:23am

Oh for sure - I am living proof of that! I guess focal therapy, once again,...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1151555/

Discussion: Gleason7(3+4) - treatment options recommendation

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 4, 2024

I too was treated in 2017 for a Gleason 8 case of PC at a specialty...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/925076/

Discussion: Faced with a treatment decision: Brachytherapy vs high dose radiation?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Sep 6, 2023

Yes my pet scan psma PET scan radiologist who read it didn't see anything my oncologist...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1198253/

Discussion: Did you choose active surveillance? Why was it a good choice?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Dec 27, 2024

@dbee I'm surprised you would consider a " PROSTATEGOMY " with a Gleason score of 3...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1228781/

Discussion: Best Prostate Cancer Treatment Options If You Have BPH Symptoms?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 3 3:23pm

@robertmizek gives a good anecdote about how our own experience is at a point in time...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1121831/

Discussion: Brachytherapy? Anyone have thoughts?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 11, 2024

I was pretty much in the same boat. 70, 3+4. Though my MRI showed five lesions,...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/923720/

Discussion: Prostate cancer treatment options?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Sep 3, 2023

Hi Kevin. Thanks for the thoughtful response. That’s a lot of great information there. Looking at...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1055210/

Discussion: Starting Orgovyx - any advice based on experience?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 22, 2024

You are not offending us, we are all guys right? Here is what I read on...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/910959/

Discussion: Help with PSA reading

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 11, 2023

I had a consultation with a Moffit RO in May 2025 and he indicated that the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1342659/

Discussion: Any experience w MRI-guided stereotactic adaptive radiotherapy SMART

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 6 8:43pm

I have looked at options to treat prostate cancer. My local urologist gave me two options...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1057715/

Discussion: Prostate Cancer Treatment Options

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 26, 2024

Photon radiation will hit the targeted area in the prostate but will have an entry and...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/888601/

Discussion: MRIdian Viewray Experience

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 2, 2023

You can request they put in a hydrogel spacer to protect your rectum. They put it...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1156330/

Discussion: My Treatment Decision Is In: Single Seed Brachytherapy

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 13, 2024

Yes, Decipher is a genomic test on the most aggressive biopsy core. It gives you sn...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1375411/

Discussion: Info overload

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 20 7:20pm

Just past the four month point of Orgovyx with two more to go. LDR brachytherapy in...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1178604/

Discussion: What's your experience with Orgovyx (relugolix)?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Nov 23, 2024

I would get another opinion. Specifically Dr Scholz with Prostate Oncology specialists. He has been specifically...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/867056/

Discussion: 3rd opinion: How many opinions did you get for prostate cancer?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: May 26, 2023

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