Hello everyone. New post/member here. Name is Jerry, 55 YO, father of a 15
YO boy, & a 10 YO girl.
I found, in a DRE with my reg MD, that i had an enlarged prostate. Labs
showed a PSA of 4.3 . He sent me to a urologist, who ultimately wound up
doing a biopsy/scan, etc.The urologist, at the beginning,  put me on 2 wks
Bactrim DS, before the biopsy, to see if it made a difference, as we weren't
sure at that point, just where we stood. PSA, which was, as i mentioned
earlier, 4.3 , after the Bactrim regimen, dropped to 3.4. PSA Free was 25%.
Now, for the biopsy results........... Prostate was 61 grams with 1 of 8
samples coming back positive, with 25% of the pos sample as cancerous.Type
T1C, Gleason 6. The + sample is located in the apex region.

I am scheduled for surgery later this week at Mass Gen Hosp in Boston, with
Dr Alex Althausen. He is the MD who did Sen Kerry's biopsy. I guess Kerry
took in all of Walsh's glowing reports down in Md, for he had the
prostatectomy done down there. In any case, Althausen is a Harvard Med
School Professor of Surgery, who has written 50+ articles, & who does 100+
procedures a year (Radical Retropubic). I'm getting a bit "nudgy", as the
date rapidly approaches. At age 55, i feel that bottom line, the stats still
fall in favor of surgery, for potential positive outcomes,
especially...after 10 yrs out. The important thing is to be here. O WOULD
like to see my grandchildren! Time will tell. I wish eveyone here well, with
100% success in whatever they try.
Respectfully
Jerry