Posted 5/23/2018 1:05 AM (GMT 0)
Matt, I see you were diagnosed, treated, and underwent A/SRT all in 2015. That was the "down" year for me. I was first sent to a urologist by my GP in 2012 when my PSA hit 4. The urologist was unconcerned, and I didn't know any better. But he did a biopsy in early 2014 when my PSA hit 12 and it was negative.
Because PSA was the only thing that said I might have had cancer, and in light of the recent guidelines, nothing was done until 2016, when my wife and I had retired and I got a new GP. He asked about the biopsy and if I'd had an MRI. I confronted my Uro with these questions and he just left the room.
And so from 2012-2016, yeah, wrong time to have PCa. Within a month I had a new Uro, an MRI, a new biopsy and soon surgery. I can't help but wonder what might have happened if that panel had not stiffed doctors' willingness to test for prostate cancer.