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john52204
john52204

rolleyes i had sex as normal with my partner when i found i ejaculated blood and

it was quite painful this has happened 2 times now i attended hospital and they want to go down the prostrate cancer path ,i had a MRI scan which is not a problem but i find the prostrate biopsy quite intrusive and do not want to go ahead with it ! there are some nasty reports about the technique . Of course i am afraid to have sex now but at 67 i am not worried what does worry me is the biopsy ? any views . thanks 

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    Up until later last year there was no accepted equivilant test that would give you a guide to the presence of tumour cells or the grading. As Geoff indicates, now that mpMRI has been shown to give a good level of equivilance (and indeed will find small tumour that the biopsy can miss) I suspect that you could request mpMRI and to make decisions based upon that. An ordinary MRI is not sufficient. If your hospital does not have multi parametric MRI request a second opinion from one that does.

    I had an MRI–TRUS fusion-guided biopsy and it was not painful and caused no obvious problems but others are not so lucky.

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