Receiving biopsy results

That's what I whispered,  over my shoulder, to the consultant who did my transrectual biopsy. 😁

Hi Reg. Welcome to the forum.

The suspicious area picked up by the MRI may not be cancerous. The biopsy will shed more light on your condition. Your PSA is relatively low and could be caused by other prostate conditions.

I know how difficult it is waiting for results but unfortunately there are no shortcuts Don't be concerned about getting your results face to face rather than by phone. It seems each hospital has different ways of giving patients their results.

Good luck mate. Please keep us updated.👍

Hi, I went through the same thing very recently. PSA of 4.8 and two suspicious areas on my MRI scan, scoring 4 lickert scale.

Targeted biopsy of those areas and a two week wait for the result.

I was all hyped up for getting bad news based on the lickert score etc.

Result came back no signs of cancer and discharge back to GP.  Simple as that. 

Please try not to worry until there is something to worry about. I know that's easy for me to say now but genuinely, I didn't waste effort on worrying. Sure I understood and accepted the possibilities. But I didn't let myself get into a state about it.

Remember Mark Rylance in bridge of spies; when asked if he never worried he replied "Would it help?"

Just wait until the result arrives and then you will have a clearer idea. There are more negative results than positive, a lot more. So numbers are on your side my friend.

Hope all goes well and these good people are here if things don't pan out as well as I expect them to.

Mick. 

Reg.  

I was all set for being told I was now a cancer sufferer. The process of getting two positive PSA results, then an MRI that shows two lesions (no one chose to explain the term lesions or in fact explain at all why they had ordered a biopsy. Even when I asked there was no reason other than well you must need one).

The radiologist explained on the day of my biopsy but I was already prepped and in a gown when that was done so felt uninformed up until then. 

The biopsy itself was no problem, but waiting for the result was. And when it came I did feel huge relief, but also confusion as to how my scores could be pointing towards cancer and then turn out to be a false alarm. 

Like I mentioned in one of my own posts, I did feel like I'd wasted their valuable time by presenting with symptoms and then not having the courtesy to be ill. But again my emotions are all over the place.

This is why the NHS don't want to start routine PSA testing, they simply cannot deal with all the fallout that it creates. And many clinicians are seeking to relable the initial stages of prostate cancer as not a cancer at all and merely a disease. Maybe that is a good way to proceed as when I got my letter that had the headline URGENT CANCER REFERRAL I was in bits to say the least. 

Good luck on your progress, what you are feeling is entirely natural and as long as you can manage it with your wife, you will be fine.

Take care.  Mick