Appletree: sorry your husband has joined our club. I also found deciding on AS or treatment very difficult.
My story is in my profile, as well as a conversation I started. I was monitored for 5+ years due to high and increasing PSA before Gleason 6 was found in April 2019. i had started checking forums before that, as in back of mind I expected that eIentually they would fine "cancer". I found that US based forums, you get many more strong opinions that Gleason 6 "is not cancer", without any consideration of other factors such as PSA level and trend, volume detected, etc.. I found this forum more balanced.
I did not find this video until after I had made my decision on next steps, but while it is six years old, it is has a lot of great information on AS. In the full video, he starts talking about AS at about the 21 minute mark, and goes into more detail on what should be done in AS at about the 26:30 mark. And repeat biopsies (which are necessary as part of AS) do have negative side effects.
https://pccntoronto.ca/2014/06/06/video-dr-tony-finelli-20-years-in-prostate-cancer-care-where-we-were-and-where-were-headed/
Talks also about HIFU (this is an old video), and robotic surgery in rest of video.
The doctor in the video is my uro-oncologist and my surgeon. He is now chief of Urology at the largest hospital group in Toronto, and the Genitourinary site lead at the top cancer research center in Canada
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