It's Baaaack.......well....maybe

Welcome Hardware,

No suggestions or advice from me as I have not walked in your shoes, but glad you found us. Hope you get some positive news and please keep us posted.

Michael

Darn,

What a bummer...best of luck to you.

Godspeed

Hero

Hope all is well with your test results, as a newly diagnosed PCP, I will be 59 this October I have been to several doctors with my biopsy results and everyone tells me based on my age and 3+3=6 that I should definitely do the surgery.  I am just wondering why you chose the route that you did? (Radiation and HT)?  I am not any farther along in making a decision than  I was a month ago.  I tend to want to do the surgey, but there's that doubt if I am doing the right thing.  Feeback?

 

Maybe Hardwareman can clear up the background. Maybe he did have a psa of 85 (unusal) with low gleason score, however it is possible they missed some biopsy areas that may have had gleason 7,8,9,10 scores. I had 3 different gleason scores found twice=2 sets, with my 12/12 biopsies (all positive back in 2002). Perhaps with his psa being correct his doc ran nomograms and said odds of being contained are not all that good. Usually a psa of 85 range is a higher risk patient, unless it is a combination of prostatitis and PCa at the same time and that can happen too. Would like to know more, so let us know your pathology details, perhaps and why radiation and hormone therapy (not uncommon to do radiation with hormone therapy as per 'Bolla Study' showed results in their abstract as favorable, from years ago now).