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I was shocked to see my PSA level of 12.6 after an routine annual exam. My doctor put me on Cipro for two weeks, then I saw an urologist. DRE was smooth although larger than normal for a person of my age. The second PSA came back to be 12.7. He recommended biopsy this Friday.
I read in an article that the second PSA should be taken 4-6 weeks after the first one. Mine was taken only two weeks after the first one. Is this still the recommended practice? Should I wait 4 more weeks for another PSA test?
My urologist did only the total PSA stest, not the free-PSA test. Is the free-PSA test still useful and recommended?
I also read somewhere that physically agitating an organ (poking needles into prostate), can sometimes lead to the development of cancer. Is this true?
Should I go ahead and do the biopsy? Are there other things I can/should do to avoid biopsy? Or if it is unavoidable, things I can/should to do before it?
I am interested to hear your story. Thanks for your advice.View Thread



I haven't read the book "Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery" by Bradley Hennenfen (2005). But one of the Amazon reviewer (Gaetan Lion) said about the book: "He [Hennenfen> indicates later in the book that biopsies may cause in certain cases the cancer to spread."
I am a scientist and I remember reading some research papers on this hypothesis, although not 100% proven, the evidences suggest that it is true...at least under certain conditions.View Thread
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