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His PSA Was 16. But That Wasn’t the Number That Worried Me
A man in his 60s feels healthy, but his PSA has climbed above 16 and his MRI shows a PI-RADS 5 lesion. With the focus firmly on prostate cancer, Dr. Stephen Petteruti asks a different question: what else was wrong?Dr. Petteruti follows his patient’s story and challenges the idea that PSA alone should determine whether a patient’s treatment is successful. He discusses his approach to biopsy, monitoring, repeat MRI and PRECISE scoring, and why he always considers disease stability, symptoms and quality of life alongside PSA trends.Then another test changes the picture. A coronary calcium scan…
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