The article suggests that JE only looked at a small subset of slides. His team of pathologists handles the many thousands of slides that are sent in. No doubt there is a different moderator now for...
I received the 2nd opinion on the biopsy (Epstein). An additional core was seen with G 3+3 (so now 5 pos out of 12). The previous Gleason pattern 4 was downgraded to pattern 3. Before I celebrate,...
I've started Active Surveillance. As a G3+4 low-intermediate, this paper confirms that for the short term this is a reasonable path:...
The PCF Australia doc is from 2014, and the data they cite will by necessity be at least 2 years older. My understanding about modern SBRT, was the side effects experienced by earlier radiation...
I had an antibiotic prescription with a computer printed label, but the instructions were truncated leaving off several important words about the timing of the last dose. Lucky I caught it, since a...
My take on the MRI is that it is a scene photographed from a moving train on a hazy day. There are points of clarity with unknowns between them. Now I have only seen the raw images from the MRI...
Well I had not considered a 2nd opinion on the MRI, and the time to have that done would have been before the biopsy. My thought was to listen to what the Drs have to say in my upcoming session. I...
I have passed that low bar that grants admittance to this league of extraordinary (and good looking) gentlemen. I now have a diagnosis. My 1.5T mpMRI result was mostly very good. The short writeup...
Had a 1.5T mpMRI with contrast, and my insurance covered the 1k cost. The tech said the quality of the images was good, and that my impersonation of a corpse was just fine. Funny that they ask what...
Sounds very similar to SelectMDX (https://prostatemdx.org/prostate-biomarkers), which has a 98% chance of predicting high or low risk PCa. A poster on another forum had the SelectMDX test but was...
I really liked hearing about the cutting edge (for the US) diagnostics. These 3 speakers and the Q&A session were great. The amount of promising info in this one video makes up for some of the less...
Thanks all. 60 seems to be the expiration date for prostates in my family - grandfather, father, and me. At least I have better options available to me. I was hoping the mpMRI would be the...
I have been getting an annual PSA test for years, mainly due to family history with PCa. My readings have trended upward slowly but this year it jumped a full point upward to 4.5. Retesting with...