Prostate Biopsy

ppaca wrote:Glad it came out ok. Mine has been going up every six months for a year and half, I will have another PSA in August and an ultra sound for a cyst that has been slowly growing on my kidney for 3 years.

Joanimaroni wrote:Glad you are both OK.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:Haven't been checked in 10 years ..thing still works okay and if  it is cancerous some docs say it is such a slow cancer why bother with it...

Bob wrote:Sometimes a high PSA is an indication of prostatitis,  Z.  My cousin has that off and on for years with no sign of cancer.
Do you have any discomfort or difficulty when urinating?  

2seaoat wrote: In some cases, the best treatment is to do nothing, as the disease may not ever progress outside of the prostate.

Tell that to the 25k victims and their families who lose their battle with prostate cancer each year.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02822/prostate-cancer.html


Prostate cancer is typically a slow-growing cancer. Many patients with prostate cancer live much longer than five years after diagnosis. In fact, almost 90 percent of men with prostate cancer live at least five years, and 63 percent survive more than 10 years. If the cancer is detected before it has spread to other organs, the five-year relative survival rate is 100 percent. However, if the cancer has spread to distant parts of the body, the five-year survival rate drops to 31 percent.


There is no one correct, conventional treatment for prostate cancer. The options to be considered will depend on the grade and stage of the disease, as well as the age of the patient. In some cases, the best treatment is to do nothing, as the disease may not ever progress outside of the prostate.

knothead wrote:I also have another form of cancer called malignant melanoma.


Bob, I do hope you have successfully dealt with this issue as it is not one to be  too dismissed . . . it is deadly . . . let us know.  My older brother just went to Vandy for a Mohs-like procedure to assure clear margins and to biopsy the sentinel cells . . . that test showed healthy cells and no sign of spreading.  Hope you have done something similar . .

TEOTWAWKI wrote:http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02822/prostate-cancer.html


Prostate cancer is typically a slow-growing cancer. Many patients with prostate cancer live much longer than five years after diagnosis. In fact, almost 90 percent of men with prostate cancer live at least five years, and 63 percent survive more than 10 years. If the cancer is detected before it has spread to other organs, the five-year relative survival rate is 100 percent. However, if the cancer has spread to distant parts of the body, the five-year survival rate drops to 31 percent.


There is no one correct, conventional treatment for prostate cancer. The options to be considered will depend on the grade and stage of the disease, as well as the age of the patient. In some cases, the best treatment is to do nothing, as the disease may not ever progress outside of the prostate.

I have to disagree with this. I'm basing my comment on experience from being in this profession. A person with problems in this area should not ignore it. I once done a autopsy on a 40 year old black male who died from prostate cancer. The question wasn't how he died, it was how he lived so long once we opened him up. Every organ in his body was full of large tumors that had spread from his prostate.

I know you are anti-medical and some things I agree with you on such as the flu vaccine. and only the flu vaccine. Not all vaccines are bad.

I don't want to argue with you about it, but really, there is a reason the worlds life's expectancy is no longer 50, its not because God decided he wanted us to all live longer now.