[quote=ononeorange ]Scotroutes - hello! What I meant by routine was that it wasn't done for any specific prostate reason. I had a minor surgical procedure for something entirely different and the doc chucked in PSA as I was over 40. Bloody glad he did.
Gotcha! Sorry to be labouring the point here, just trying to get it clear in my head.
Onone thanks for the post. Have only ever had the finger test, maybe time to get a blood test to establish a baseline.
@deadkenny (apologies for going on about France again but I know their system) you get your test results here. Everybtest I have ever had I get the original and the doc gets a fax/email. This includes the MRI where I have all the photos, digital images and the diagnosis. When my Mum had an MRI she was told nothing apart from "resukts will be sent to the Doctor please make an appointment"
Doctors are professionals like any other, they make mistakes all the time. I find it quite staggering that we seek multiple opinions for so many things in our lives but rarely on medial issues.
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C4 were live broadcasting a colonoscopy yesterday, if anyone is intertested
'Huge leap' in prostate cancer testing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38665618
The biggest leap in diagnosing prostate cancer "in decades" has been made using new scanning equipment, say doctors and campaigners.
Using advanced MRI nearly doubles the number of aggressive tumours that are caught.
And the trial on 576 men, published in the Lancet, showed more than a quarter could be spared invasive biopsies, which can lead to severe side-effects.
The NHS is already reviewing whether the scans can be introduced widely.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in British men, and yet testing for it is far from perfect.
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When my Mum had an MRI she was told nothing apart from "resukts will be sent to the Doctor please make an appointment"
In my experience of numerous scans/x-rays from my (bike related) hospital trips, the stuff gets lost in the post. Ask the doctor at a later date and they deny all knowledge. Also, UK hospitals can't send information to each other. One time, Merthyr hospital (yep, BPW 😀 ) did x-rays and stuck a cast on hand, but had to give me the documents and CD to take to my local hospital & doctor. They can't do a referral there. Quickest way was (as they advised) go to A&E at local hospital. They said to see my GP for referral or I could wait 3 hours in A&E and get checked in like an A&E patient the they can refer to fracture clinic. Which I did.
that BBC article is good, and it sounds like a great bit of progress to reduce biopsy's, which are unpleasant at the least. May also help to reduce the naysayer element of 'intrusive investigation often for potentially little benefit' (if you buy that line...)
I thought it was a pity the guy they spoke to is 70 yrs old, again reinforcing the 'old mans disease' concept, which really isn't the case....
