Posted 6/19/2015 8:30 PM (GMT 0)
On an old thread, our new friend Truckdriver52 wrote:
"hi, I would be considered a newbie, I was diagnosed with pc a year ago and had a random biopsy my psa at the time was 6.3 and I believe my gleason score was 3.5, ten out of 12 cores came back negative two positive. my urologist sent me to see a robotic surgeon and he was adamant that I undergo radical robotic surgery, I then went to see an oncologist and between he and my uro they told me with my numbers I had a lot of options but it was their suggestion that I should watch and wait. my uro said why get aggressive with it if it wasn't getting aggressive with me and have another random biopsy in a year, i underwent another biopsy a month ago. 8 cores came back negative 4 positive psa 2.3 gleason score 6 now my uro is pushing me towards radical robotic surgery. if everything i read about this with my new numbers i am still considered low risk. i have read about mri guided laser ablations and i believe this is the way to go unfortunately there are only a few places that perform this procedure and although they are fda approved most insurance companies are not covering them as of yet. so i guess if i am in fact low risk would i have time to watch and wait in hopes of this procedure is approved. your thoughts please"
Welcome, Truck. I gave you this new thread so that you can feel welcomed and to give you your own thread which may get you more responses to your question. Jim