Waiting results from biopsy

Three weeks is normal in my NHS trust before you get your next appointment and results, although I just had a 4 week wait for results from a scan carried out at a different hospital.

Some of this is that these results all go into a weekly MDT (multi disciplinary team) meeting where they are discussed between the urology and oncology consultants, and the next action is planned for each patient, and then they post out the invite for your next consultation. You get an extra 1-2 week's delay here depending on timing of the results. For one of my scans, the MacMillan nurse setup the next consultation to be an hour after the MDT, and that knocked a week off the normal time to post out appointments following the MDT.

It is annoying they don't even have a proper way to get things like PSA results to you faster, which they get back the next day. I have found that a nurse may tell me if I pop in. I have ended up repeatedly making official requests for my hospital records to get full copies of things like blood test results, scan results, etc, but they take up to 30 days.

Please keep us updated when you get your test results.

All the best,

Chris

I am afraid you’ll just have to sit it out and wait for your results. It’s ‘slightly’ encouraging that you were told you only had a 50% chance.

I twigged I had the big C after my raised PSA and an irregular digital rectal examination, and before my MRI and diagnosis. I consoled myself by looking up the mortality results of prostate cancer compared to other cancers.

Hopefully, you’ll be clear, but if not, it’s not the end of the world, as so many on this website will attest to.

Best of luck.

Cheers, John.

I had lots of waits because I had lots of tests (almost every test going), because my PSA is up where it's expected to have spread, but each test couldn't find any spread, so I ended up going for a different one.

I found the waits useful to mentally play out the 'what ifs' in my mind, which I think made me more prepared to hear the results when I did. My family didn't like the waits - when possible, I didn't tell them I was waiting for more results, and only told them afterwards when I'd had time to digest the results and research what they meant.

Hi Paul,

            Check out my bio, we are very similar in everything. I am awaiting my results after biopsy last Tuesday. I was told between 2/3 weeks and as most on here said you end up worrying and googling everything with prostate cancer in it. Under the circumstance's and after initial worrying I am quite calm with it all now as the way I'm dealing with the wait is to gather information and a 'shopping list' for 'if' I get the bad news. I want to be organised / prepared and ready so I don't have to think about that part, sounds morbid but I have made a will, changed my death in benefits at work ( I am a single dad), collected info of what to buy after any prostate operation etc.

I am planning for the worst but hoping for the best, I am very pragmatic and whatever the result is I will accept and take it from there.

Yes, blood in urine is normal for a few days, particularly the first few cc's as you start peeing in my experience. You may get bits of clots too.

Blood in semen is even more common, and can go on for 3-6 weeks, and can look very dramatic (you would think it was pure blood). After a few days, it changes from bright red to brown, and then gradually gets fainter.

By the way, as the charity which did my original PSA test said, the most common symptom of PC is...
... nothing.
Which is of course indistinguishable from no PC until you've been fully diagnosed.

At the stage when the symptoms are nothing, it's at its most curable.

I had exactly the same emotional feelings, as did many others here.

The PSA reading should be seen in context of a range. A range for people of an age, but in that range there are those who are high or low in that range. Range gives a high and a low. You do not know what your normal is, or your range is.

Your 6.2 may be high for your general age range, seems so to me, but may be normal for YOU. You MAY have a PCa issue?

My friend has PSA 2.0 at age 67. Very very low for his age. He has PCa. Zero symptoms, but he has PCa, zero symptoms, negligent PSA, BUT he has Cancer. Which he needs to be dealt with.

atb

dave

Still none the wiser as to what my results are.

But sounds rather worrying having to take sample of urine

😭

Thank you.

I have kind of vkme to the conclusion that I have PC. If results were negative I would think they would tell me before. 

In some areas, it works the opposite way round - they contact you earlier if the results are positive. John got a letter in the post with a date for scans before he got the appointment letter for the biopsy results, so we knew what they were going to tell us before we got there :-/ 

Waiting is horrible but everyone goes through it and survives. 

I had MRI scan before biopsy .

I will update you lovely people as soon as I know

The 5.26 I am not sure about; did they do another PSA test? It could be that your PSA has dropped a little bit since the last test.

What wonderful news! You must be so relieved!

now go and enjoy the rest of your life.