On 25/09/2017 09:53, tim... wrote:


"dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 24/09/2017 23:31, Bob Eager wrote:

They are complementary tests. Neither is definitive. Even a biopsy isn't
definitive!




They are definitive if they find something, but they do miss as I now
know.

no

it has a high percentage of false positives

PSA 100 means you definitely have cancer, but what do you do about a
PSA of 7 or 8? Retest in a couple of months, and see if it's going up?

In my case, a digital exam showed something, so did MRI, but the biopsy
was clear. I hated the biopsy.