Posted 8/2/2016 1:53 AM (GMT 0)
Emar, given your husband's history, I suggest your husband consider a transperineal mapping biopsy, which can take up to 90 cores (probably more) for analysis by a pathologist. That will significantly reduce the chance of infection while providing once and for all a definitive look at your husband's prostate for evidence of cancer.
It was only when I had such a biopsy that I got an accurate sense of the nature and extent of the cancer in my prostate. A previous 3T mpMRI missed the most aggressive tumors, and with each additional opinion by the three pathologists who analyszed the biopsy cores taken by the radiologist, the Gleason score for the index lesion biopsied kept changing.
Good luck, and be careful. A lot of well-meaning people make error after error in the field of prostate cancer. Or so has been my experience.