“Suspicious” Prostate?: Dr. Mistry Explains What Your Prostate Biopsy Results Mean
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This particular person was driving around on a Saturday and he caught our show. He said it was very good timing. In his case, he had a recent pro um , prostate biopsy done one area, low grade cancer. Then two were considered suspicious. And for additional evaluation, I saw a blood and now what looks like tissue over the two weeks, but nothing significant. I had one ejaculations and also saw the redness or dark Brown in the semen . My question is, is it healthy for the prostate to get as much residual blood out as soon as possible?
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Well, first of all, very importantly, ejaculation is healthy. Right? So keep it up. Yeah , there was, there was a study that once showed that the more that , that the number of a Hewlett’s correlated with a lower risk of prostate cancer, right. My husband keeps reminding me that’s right. I mean, all you’re doing is , is damaging his chances of living without prostate cancer by, you know what I’m saying? I mean, you only have anyway. So , uh, the , the point is that ejaculations after a prostate biopsy , uh, will lead to some blood in the ejaculate and certainly getting it out is probably in your best interest . I guess how I would advise you is that if the color of the blood is bright red, so it looks like it’s actively bleeding that I might give the prostate a little bit of a rest, but if it’s darker red or brownish, then certainly, you know, cleaning the tube is going to be in your best interest. There’s no damage to your partner , uh , or risk to your partner from having that little bit of , um , a bloodstain , uh , staining of the , uh , of the semen after a biopsy , uh , having some blood in the urine and even maybe what may seem like tissue passages is not necessarily abnormal, but if you can’t pee or if you’re a couple of weeks out and the bleeding seems to be getting worse or you’re having urgency and frequency or any other problems, and you need to get in to get a urine culture, to make sure that you don’t have a urinary tract infection that’s causing worsening. So things should be getting better every day, not getting worse. And so if things are getting worse and I’d say that for almost any surgery, if things, if you’re in pain, you’re in more pain, more pain day after day, that’s probably a sign of something bad. If it’s less and less, you should be improving. Um, uh, after, you know, most procedures that we would do for example, on a daily basis. Now getting to the other part of that question, and we don’t have any information about this, this man, we don’t know how old he is or what his symptoms are, what his PSA was, but it sounds like he had a , uh, multi-core biopsy of his prostate with one positively identified as cancer and two suspicious for cancer. This is a real dilemma for many patients to decide what to do. What do you do if you’re given a diagnosis and told that this is a very slow growing disease, that is not dangerous. And this is where psychology sometimes overcomes biology. That is the, what is the psychology of living with cancer. And if this is the kind of thing that’s keeping you up at night and you’re having lots of trouble dealing with it, even if they tell you it’s not life threatening your doctor, you may want to hear an opinion for treatment. One of the best treatments that we offer that exact scenario is high intensity focused ultrasound. It’s a focal therapy. We just treat where the cancer is really lead the rest of the prostate alone. Very little side effects, if any, well, I mean, there’s, we’ve had exceptional success. Our program here in Austin is one of the busiest in the entire country of patients that come from all over the country to get the HIFU procedure in our practice. Um, it is one that we can do in a way that preserves your, your potency and your continence so that longterm side effects can be minimized. And it doesn’t take any other future kinds of treatment off the table. First, you got to decide if it’s worth treating. If you’re older, if you’re not in great health, then they may be reasons to not treat. They also worry sometimes that large prostates or certain types of prostate cancer may be under sampled in a disease like that. So we almost always try to get an MRI of the prostate to make sure there’s no big lesion that was under sampled during the course of that biopsy. And if you’ve already had a biopsy and your insurance wouldn’t pay for an MRI beforehand, it will pay for one. Now once you have a diagnosis of cancer and we usually wait about three months, let the prostate cool-down after the biopsy, and then go ahead and do an MRI of the prostate gland. And so that will tell us if maybe you were under sampled a , you have two additional areas that are abnormal or suspicious, but not diagnostic of cancer. And I tell what I, how I explain that to patients is that , uh, we diagnose prostate cancer based upon what the cells look like under the microscope architecturally. And so if there’s not a enough abnormality to get to the threshold of cancer, then it’s called suspicious. But if you rebiopsy a guy who’s suspicious more than half the time you find cancer, you’d find more that architecture. So in my mind, when I see suspicious, but not diagnostic for, you know, I, you know, I , I kind of assume that, you know, 50% of the time I’m going to find cancer if I biopsy them, that state area. So that gives me an idea of what , what they’re in for. If you’re young, if you’re 45 years old and you have prostate cancer, you know, you may want to consider treatment , uh , because even a slow growing disease is going to have many, many, many years. Uh, one of the tools that we use is the Memorial Sloan Kettering, prostate nomogram. If you are interested, we’ll put it on our , um, our Facebook site, the , uh , the link to the , uh, this, this, this nomogram you put in the information about your cancer, about your age, about your PSA, and what gets spit out is what is your risk that this disease is likely to progress with or without treatment. And that’s very valuable. Huh ? Interesting. Well, what a great question. That was a great question. 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