Cancer Survivors Network - Comments for "biopsy result" Comments
for "biopsy result" en-csn A Walk In The Woods <p>Bucky,</p>
<p>I am sure these results are a relief but as your urologist
undoubtedly explained to you: a negative biopsy does not mean
you don't have prostate cancer. A typical needle biopsy samples
less than 1% of the volume in your prostate which means that the
only real information you have is that in that very small
percent of prostate volume examined there was no cancer. There
could well be cancer lurking somewhere else and many men have
undergone multiple biopsies before PCa was detected. In other
woods, you're still walking in the woods. Another interesting
statistic is that 25% of men over with "normal" PSA readings
that undergo a standard needle biopsy will discover some degree
of prostate cancer. It's a function of men and growing older.
50% of men in their 50s, 60% of men in their 60s, 70% of men in
their 70s (and so on) have been shown to have prostate cancer
when autopsied after deat