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How do you fire a doctor?
This is a serious question. Recently I drove 11 hours to Mayo, and I've decided to let them treat me from now on. (I was...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 14, 2025
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How do I request a VA referral to Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville?
I'm a 59-year-old Army veteran recently diagnosed with prostate cancer at the VA hospital in Augusta, GA. My PSA levels rose rapidly from 3.72 to...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 11, 2025
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Life after prostate cancer
I am new on here. Age 72. I had RARP in Jan 2020. surgery/biopsy revealed 1 out 12 samples with cancer. Gleason 3+3. Margins were...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 22, 2024
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How many cores for a needle biopsy?
I have a question to the number of cores during a prostate cancer biopsy. I had a MRI that identified a Gleason 7+ PI-RADS spot...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 10, 2025
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Is it time for a 4th Biopsy?
Obviously will discuss this with the doctor when he calls on Friday but my wife and I are wondering if I am in for my...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 12, 2023
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Appointment with Dr. before surgery
Hello, I am scheduled for RAPL in 7 weeks from now. Since I first met the Urologist that will be performing the procedure, I have...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 17, 2025
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Pursue 2nd opinion?
First a bit of context. Father had PCa at age 58 with radical prostatectomy. I'm 63, had urinary issues for several years, had a PSA...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 17, 2024
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The Waiting Room: A Post Treatment Parable for the Terminally Stable
So you did it. You checked your PSA, because you’re responsible like that—or more likely, because a doctor with an unnecessarily cheerful tone suggested it...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 23, 2025
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NePtune Trial and surgery questions
Some background - last month (Dec 2024) I was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 9 . I am BRCA2 positive...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 28, 2025
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Can I Manage Testosterone w/ ORGOVYX and Skip Radiation?
I've already had colon cancer and a sigmoid resection that metastasized to my lung ... had a lung wedge resection also. Was doing good except...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 1, 2024