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Understanding Your Gleason Score | Health and Fitness News
When you get a prostate biopsy, your Gleason score reveals how aggressive your cancer is — not its stage — by adding up the two most common cell abnormality grades from one to five. Lower scores mean slower-growing, less dangerous cancer, while higher scores signal faster spread and more urgent treatment. New grade groups simplify this: Group One (scores 6 and below) is very low risk, Group Five (9–10) is the most aggressive. This score guides treatment — active surveillance for low-risk cases, surgery or radiation for high-risk ones. But remember, it’s just one piece; doctors also factor in…
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