Hello
This is my first post. My husband had a biopsy on the 1 June. He was called in for results on the 9th June and has a bone scan booked in for the 15 th June so things are moving quickly. Now although he had presented at his own doctor a few times because of trouble with peeing and was sent away after a rectilinear exam saying just age ( he is 69) no Psa test was offered. He went back again and was seen by a local who did another exam and sent him off for Psa and ultra sound Appointment came through quite quickly and since then things have moved fast as I said. Which is great but I am so worried that it is really advanced. I had been reading a lot on this site and thought I was prepared to ask the right questions at the biopsy results meeting : Ithe consultant said the results were positive and that unfortunately it was aggressive. He did not mention the Gleason scores so I asked the question, he seemed surprised he was not a very good or clear communicator. His answer was 5 I think I then said something like is that the both scores and he said yes it's 5. He didn't mention anything about staging but I assumed they would have to do an MRI first to determine this, however they have gone straight for bone scan. We have an hours journey to the hospital so I called to see if there was a possibility of doing the MRI on the same day. I was told he had to have the bone scan first to decide if an MRI was needed. I will try to be better prepared for the next results meetin and the information and tool kits on this site have been great. The hospital gave me one of the booklets where I can record results questions and answers etc so that will be a help. My question now is does the doctors answer of 5 really mean 10?
Thanks