I
arrived early for my 3:55 appointment on October 5th, as usual.
After a long wait, I found out that my urologist had run out of time to see the
remaining patients. Fortunately, he was able to squeeze me in later that
afternoon. He described the results, primarily in terms of the Gleason score.
Of
the 20 cores, two had mostly or entirely missed the prostate, eight were clear,
two had “atypical small acinar proliferation (ASAP),” four had some suspicious
cells, and four had definite cancerous cells. Three of those last four had Gleason
scores of 3+4=7, and the fourth was 4+3=7. The Gleason score therefor was
essentially the same as in the previous biopsy. Two of those four had “perineural
invasion.”
I
didn’t see the biopsy report itself until I got a copy after the appointment.
Because of that delay, I didn’t get a chance to ask about notes mentioning the
cores with no prostate tissue, ASAP, or perineural invasion. I also didn’t know
that the core locations would be described in the form of a grid system, with
no explanation of how the grid coordinates related to the locations of cores
taken in the first biopsy.
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