He’s home from having the biopsy, I must say it was quicker than I thought (perhaps not quickly enough for him! )
Results in about 3 weeks, the urology cancer nurse specialist spoke to us, she was very kind and very open and honest, and she said the likelihood is that it is very likely cancer, she said she’d be surprised if it wasn’t, and it seems to have broken out of the prostate, and there appears to be lymph node involvement but no metastatic disease which is good. /She did say that his prostate is a normal size, which I think surprised my partner because he I think interpreted the grading on the MRI as being representative of the size of the prostate which is not what it indicates at all as I understood it yesterday but I may have heard wrong. We now are awaiting the results and an appointment following the MDT meeting. It all hinges on the Gleason score, which I have heard about through reading on here, my partner hadn't.
The nurse did say that they only recommend surgery for PC that is solely confined to the prostate, because my partner's has "migrated" outside it, surgery, although would remove the cancer in the prostate, wouldn't remove the cancer from the lymph node[s] and he would require additional treatment. She said they are confident they can cure it via other treatment methods. I'm confident that they're confident, but my partner is angry that he feels he's not being listened to. I tried explaining to him what I understood where the nurse is coming from and that we still don't know anything more until the biopsy results come back. I get it that he's probably very scared, it is a scary concept, but I want to support him the best way I can, but these specialists know their stuff, we don't. We have to be guided by them.
He really wasn't happy that surgery isn't recommended, and is adamant he's willing to put himself through it, I think, obviously he's scared that the prostate cancer cells could mutate further and that's why he wants the whole thing out. I can see both his perspective and that of the nurse but neither of us are experts in the field, we have to be guided by those that are. Difficult though it may be. I'm hoping they can explain the options more clearly when the biopsy results come back.
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