Hmmmm

I've just returned from my latest Urologist appt to discuss my prostate cancer, during which he gave me his assessment of my PSA dropping from 4.29 to 1.38 in the last 8 months. His reply was "Hmmm, what kind of treatment have you been doing to achieve this? " I told him, and he added it to his notes. That was the end of that conversation.  He suggested that the next step would be biopsy.

I had read about the MRI guided biopsy that is being done at the University of Birmingham, and asked him what he thought. He agreed that a biopsy would be the next step, and referred me to Dr Joe Busch in Chattanooga. When asked whether he thought the cancer might be gone, he indicated that it's probably still there, but just not "active" and that after the biopsy, we'd still need to discuss what, if any, type of medical treatment I should consider.



We also agreed to have genetic testing done by Prolaris.  I have done some research on Genomic testing, but will have to spend some time on this one.  The test is supposed to tell how agressive the cancer is, in order to determine how quickly action, if necessary, needs to be taken to address it.  The test will be done on my initial biopsy, from back in August, 2014. I initially thought maybe we should get the test done on the latest biopsy, but I'm claiming that it won't find any, so the only test that could be done would be on the initial biopsy.

I'm sticking with my theory that the cancer is totally gone, and this is no longer a concern!!