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Old 10-12-11 | 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by TromboneAl
Do you realize that you are saying that you would be willing to go through 100 unnecessary prostate biopsies?
For a prostate biopsy, a thin needle is inserted through the rectum (transrectal biopsy), through the urethra, or through the area between the anus and scrotum (perineum).
You would be willing to have that done 100 times, risking the complications of infection, etc?
Just doing a little reading, there is a new test in the study stage that detects Engrailed-2 a protein found in the urine if men with prostate cancer, if they can work this into a commercial product, you go to the pharmacy, buy the kit, take it to your doctors office, open it up and pee on the stick, and then your doctor looks at it, and tells you your prostate in cancerous, then do the biopsy. One of the issues with PSA is that if there are false positives, there is also the possibility of a false negative, which could have much more dire consequences.
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