Hi All
I have just been diagnosed with 3+3 (Gleason 6) via TRUS biopsy. 3 out of 12 cores came back with well diffrentiated adenocarcinoma. Not sure what that means ?
They were all from one side. It was 10% in each of those 3 cores. MRI showed that there was lesion in the LEFT periphery 1.3cm and another that is apparently 0.9cm right lateral base. (Not sure where that is - can anyone help ?) I am not sure whether the second one was pierced or not. I think my staging is t1/t2.
All my DREs were non-conclusive (aka seemingly healthy). Though suprisingly during my TRUS biopsy they suddenly seemed to have done a DRE which is now being stated as firm. My prostate apparently is rather small 23 gms.
From 2015 my PSA seemed to have risen from around 1.87 but I did not get tested because my GPs claimed that the getting up in the night to go to the toilet was an overactive bladder!! However in Sep 2017 I had 2 readings that were marginially high 3.4, 3.5 and then one which was 4.05 and the very next day 3.55
I was suffering from median lobe enlargement (only detected this year because I went for an ultrasound in India ) and had been going to the toilet in the night to urinate for the last 4 years. MRI claims that this transition/median lobe has a bit of BPH.
My father did die of cancer that had spread but he was a smoker who had stopped late in his life, they think it originated from his kidneys. He did have a TURP on his prostate 9 years before passing away and no cancer was mentioned then. (Not sure whether he had been biopsied for it during his Turp op - which I am sure they would have done but cant be sure).
No close relatives of mine have this problem. But, 2 of my dad's cousins both brothers have prostate cancer.One has had a radical prostatecomy and the other radiation. 59 and 71 years old. I am 55.
I have been given the option of radical prostatectomy or active surveillance.