I was diagnosed back in 2019 with a PSA around 6.7. Following the usual MRI and biopsy..not a lot of fun...I have had my Prostate cancer monitored ever since.
I have carefully tracked the PSA via blood tests every three months. 6,7 is actually a high. It varies from 3.4 to 4.8. Right now it is around 5. The MRI scans never show any movement. I joked with my consultant that perhaps my biopsy had been a bit too successful. My PSA varies, but only within the range given above.
More recently I had a diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma on the very tip of my nose. I had a biopsy and about 5 weeks later met the surgeon who planned to slice the thing off. Not only could she not find the scar of the biopsy, she could not find the growth either. So we plan to meet again for a checkup in 4 months, She mentioned that sometimes a biopsy can trigger the body's immune system to attack a growth which, until the biopsy, had not been very visible to the immune system. I had never heard of this effect before and I started to wonder that if it were possible for my nose then how about for the prostate? So, I ran a check using the ChatGPT AI engine. It seems that there is evidence for this and although you can't rely on this effect, it might at least encourage the decision to have a biopsy, Best wishes and luck to all.
BTW: I did attempt to include my question and the actual ChatGPT response but I was prevented from pasting the response...which ran to several pages. The question which generated several pages of response was "Can a biopsy on a cancerous growth encourage the body's own defences to attack the cancer?" Feel free to try out this question or your version, at ChatGPT (https://chat-gpt.com/)
Edited by member 19 Nov 2023 at 11:11
| Reason: To add the link to CharGPT