He has had several biopsies (last two MRI guided). All negative. For his last biopsy he even travelled to one of the best urologists in Europe (paid out of his own pocket).
All other signals (PSA, PHI,..) look concerning. At this point, he is so fed up that he will take treatment and get done with it.
Thoughts?
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If he has had negative biopsies, why would he get treated for a disease he doesn't have? I think that's a symptom of a mental disease - he should see a psychotherapist, if you can convince him.
Several biopsies, all negative. Two MRI's...any idea what his PIRADS scores are? Based on the little you report, your friend should join our community instantly and listen to what his peers might have to say about his condition. What did this "exemplary" european urologist say? What doctor will treat a man with multiple negative biopsies? (please share the name so we can lambast and avoid).
That you're here is ok, but he needs to post and read for himself. As per Tall_Allen, Psychotherapy is a helpful suggestion too. I rarely offer my opinion in our communties. Your friend's case illustrates an opportunity to reap the extrodinary value of peer to peer prostate cancer discusion...but, he must show up here to benefit.
My husband unintentionally did AS for 11 years, 2003-2014. With a slowly raising, sometimes declining, PSA, biopsies were negative every single year including 3 months prior to his simple prostatectomy for BPH (prostate 125+ cc). The extremely well-known robotic surgeon did not see any reason to do an MRI-guided at a PSA of 14. Tumor was found in post surgical pathology.
Yes. The very celebrated robotic surgeon was convinced he'd "gotten it all," but of course hadn't. He convinced my husband that he need a salvage surgery. Salvage surgery pathology was completely negative. It took Pylarify (last man of phase II clinical trial at Stanford) to locate the recurrence in the prostate bed at the end of 2018. He then did 2.5 years of bicalutamide and 39 RT. Bical was finished a year ago October of 2021. He's still on 3-month labs, one coming up next week. Fingers crossed. Gleason was 3+3 at diagnosis, upgraded to 3+4 (one of four cores) after MRI guided biopsy before the worthless salvage surgery, then upgraded to 4+3 (the MRI guided biopsied tissue, not the original pathology after the simple prostatectomy) by Mayo RST.
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