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Can a lesion on the prostate be a secondary cancer?

User
Posted 30 Apr 2018 at 13:29

Hi there

I know that certain types of aggressive types of prostate cancer can spread to other parts of the body and that these are called sondaries and the primary cancer is prostate cancer but my question is based on my recent mpMRI results.

 

I have recently been told that my recent mpMRI scan has revealed a lesion on my prostate that is going to be investigated by the means of a template biopsy on the 5th June.

 

My question is:

Is it possible that the lesion on my prostate could be in itself a secondary cancer from a thus far undetected primary source of  the cancer elsewhere in my body?

If this is possible would a biopsy on my prostate reveal the primary source of cancer?

 

Thank you in anticipation of your help.

 

User
Posted 30 Apr 2018 at 13:48

Unlikely to be a secondary from elsewhere but yes the biopsy would show it wasn't a prostate cancer.

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