"...The current dilemma with active surveillance here in the US is that there is not enough support from the urology community..." - ralfinaz I can attest to that! There's a limited choice of UroDocs...
Herindoors - Forgot to mention that you probably should not make any decisions based on ONE book - or one Doc's reco's for that matter. It's a good idea to read as much as you can from different...
My wife had a half dozen major procedures two years ago in dealing with DCIS breast cancer & related matters...so we've been there, done that. We went through the anger, numbness, etc. It wasn't...
I'm a 'newbie' here too - and have been busily learning all I can about the topic. Everything I've read suggests that you should diligently pursue the doc's recommendations for diagnosis and don't...
IIRC, I'd read that pathologists often assign a minimum Gleason of 6 to ANY Bx sample they receive - is that true? What Purgatory said above about any cancer being cancer - we can attest to that. My...
sounds a bit like some cancers :smilewinkgrin:...
Yes, it's way past time for more resources to be put into Prostate cancer - all aspects of it. The gals did a wonderful job of bringing breast cancer to the forefront - and the resources began...
New, and definitely not trying to stir any pot - but I asked my doc about this - the 'sampling' issue. My question to him was "where would you sample?" His answer was a bit murky - part of it...
Came across an interesting stat of 'only' about 75% cure rate by the BEST surgeons - not sure about the radiation cure rate. Presumably the rate might be much lower for run-of-the mill surgeons?...