Hello all, thanks for this fantastically informative forum, grateful to everyone for sharing their stories.
Here's mine: 48M, father had prostate cancer so got PSA test at health check. PSA range from 2.25 to 2.97 across 2 separate readings, so forwarded for MRI.
Prostate normal size at 27cc. BUT one small 1cm indeterminate lesion identified in transition zone (so unusual area) graded at Likert 4, which was obviously a shock. On to a TP biopsy (which I found quite horrible tbh). 16 cores taken with 4 fusion targeted into lesion. Consultant said he thought it was likely to be low grade cancer, but could equally well be nothing (eh?).
Psychologically prepared for cancer but just got the letter to say nothing found in any of the 16 cores. Nurse now wants to discharge me back to GP.
Obviously I'm hugely relieved and feel very grateful for this news, but confused as to what to do next. There is always the small possibility the target lesion was missed, although with 4 cores taken you'd hope they managed to hit it with at least one.
PSA is still slightly raised for my age, but the feeling seems to be the lesion is probably prostatitis, or inflammation from a previous UTI.
What a rollercoaster.