Thank you!!!...
Been looking over the Internet and cannot find what percent of prostate MRIs have false positives? And what percent have false negatives? Anyone here know?...
Thank you, JNF. Just to clarify: "no memory of the procedure" refers to the MRI or a biopsy?...
Great point. Not easier to get through to a doc, but will try. Maybe if I physically go to the image center....
Three days ago I had to go more often, it burned at the tip, and it was hard to control stopping urination. Two days ago went to a clinic, they said I had a UTI. Prescription for an antibiotic to...
Well-stated. Perhaps because by palpable nodule is isolated they refuse to get a biopsy unless both MRI and TRUS are done. I'd had four normal PSAs of 0.8 with a PVol of 125....
Djin, no doc around here will do a biopsy unless and until I get an MRI....
Thanks, JNF. This AM I was in a clinic not related to the nodule. The doc said he would happy to recheck it, and declared it 2-3 mm. If true, that 1/3 rd the size described over a month ago. The...
62gal raises an important point. Is 80 years old really too old to have surgery??? Is any risk worth the reward? Because this isolated nodule is not getting larger, and one doc could not even feel...
Thanks. Here is video: about transperineal: https://youtu.be/JUIpUXSSOs0?si=yngFgI5wVWvvr4NY What size nodule is too small to attempt biopsy?...
What is your total PSA? Free PSA?...
Thank you both. I am 80 years old, and my PSA is low. Two docs warned me false positives and negatives on MRI and 4% infection rate from the biopsy through the rectum. Yes, there's decrease infection...
I'd like to know if I should get an MRI scan. About 3 weeks ago a 5 mm nodule was discovered on my prostate gland. I consulted a urologist a week later and he said that at my age 80 I shouldn't...