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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / February 2005Re: one type of PCA?
Just to clarify, is there only one type of prostate cancer that for some reason in it's own time increases it's aggressive state from G1 to G5? Or is there more than one type of prostate cancer that is classed as G1 to G5? Ray There are seven types of prostate cancer cells, but I don't think there is a corelation to Gleason scores of any of them. The Gleason score is based on what shape your cancer cells are in at the time your biopsy is done.  SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3bN0M0 Seminal Vesicle involvement, Neg margins PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 (4 mo), 12/03, 4/04, 09/04, 01/05 PSA .07 .05 .06 .05 non Illegitimi carborundum > Just to clarify, is there only one type of prostate cancer that for some > reason in it's own time increases it's aggressive state from G1 to G5? Or is > there more than one type of prostate cancer that is classed as G1 to G5? Ray > Just to clarify, is there only one type of prostate cancer that for some > reason in it's own time increases it's aggressive state from G1 to G5? Or is > there more than one type of prostate cancer that is classed as G1 to G5? Ray No one knows the answer to that question. Clearly prostate cancers differ significantly in how likely they are to metastasize and how quicly they will spread. The Gleason score is one useful way to tell if a cancer is aggressive, but it is not the only factor.
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