Posted 11/14/2014 4:42 PM (GMT 0)
Bill-
Your history seems to be similar to many signature blocks I have read. Troubling PSA number yet negative first/second/third biopsies and then one day results that require serious attention. That is what raises my blood pressure a bit.
It appears that if you have higher PSA numbers even with good free PSA percentages you can still find aggressive cancer after a few negative biopsies. In short- unless you truly have inflammation the numbers mean you have to keep checking- and in many cases find the cancer that was missed- not that you do not have cancer.
Sounds like the road you either delay getting on, get on it as soon as your PSA gets past 4.0 just to know, or get on it when you have enough opinions to sway you to start- but you have to get on it unless an antibiotic proves you only had inflammation of the prostate.
Then you get a gleason score-- so if it is non aggressive can you assume it will not turn aggressive, or are you still on the road for future checking to see if it turns aggressive.
Or it is truly that cancer the studies say almost all men die with and gives them no issues.
I am somewhat amused by the statement that if you do nothing you could live 10-15 years even with aggressive prostate cancer without mentioning that once you get the symptoms you could be suffering for five years until it kills you.
But I am new so I could have this all wrong.