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Peter - 03 Oct 2005 03:14 GMT

To Whom It May Concern:

Please let me know how often should be taken the prostate biopsy if the PSA
is in the range of 4.2-4.8 ng/mL for a long time.

Thanks,

Peter

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Rich256 - 03 Oct 2005 03:52 GMT

> To Whom It May Concern:
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> Peter

Best you post this to

sci.med.prostate.cancer

and

alt.support.prostate.cancer

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Derek F - 03 Oct 2005 10:10 GMT

> Please let me know how often should be taken the prostate biopsy if the
> PSA is in the range of 4.2-4.8 ng/mL for a long time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter

Much depends on your age and size/feel of your prostate. A large prostate
would normally cause a higher PSA. My PSA was first found to be 5.2 eleven
years ago and has been as high as 9.2 recently it settled around 7.00. In
the first five years I had three negative biopsies and have not been
advised to have another one.
Derek.

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