Cribiform

Cribiform

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Posted 20 Apr 2025 at 00:29

How many of you have cribiform pattern in your biopsy and how did it affect your treatment decision. I have a 3+4, 3+4, and 3+3 with 8 of 12 positive (all on one side). Gleason 4 was 15% in one and 5% in the other with some cribiform found in the Gleason 4. So it's not a super heavy load of cribiform. Also PSMA was negative for metastases.

How did cribiform affect your plans. (in addition to ruling out AS).How did it affect the timeline for you?

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Posted 20 Apr 2025 at 09:19

Hello mate.

Here's a thread discussing cribriform. It may help you.

https://community.prostatecanceruk.org/posts/t31133-Cribriform-patterns

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Posted 21 Apr 2025 at 21:55

Hi, As with many things you can only give your own experience. I asked my oncologist on my last appointment in march about my cribiform pattern and whether he was just trying to allay my fears said if I was to give a score out of 100 the Gleason 9 would be 90 and the cribiform would add 1-2. But with lower scores I don’t know if it would add more significance or not. Again the Gleason 9 and t3a were bigger drivers in the treatment (ht+hdrBT+EBRT).

Wish you well

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Posted 22 Apr 2025 at 01:50

I had cribriform pattern (stage T3a). Before deciding on treatment I met with both a surgeon and a radiologist. I asked both specifically about the impact of having cribriform pattern and neither was particularly concerned about it. I liked the surgeon's answer best: "I'm removing it anyway so I don't care what it is". I ended up having surgery 8 months ago. So far, so good.

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