HI... I'm a Canadian and plan to go to North Dakota for a urologist to do an
ultrasound and biopsy on the prostate. The wait time in Canada is 2 months,
ridiculous ! I just need the findings, treatment will be done back in
Canada. Someone suggested about $2500 US , does this sound in the range?.
> HI... I'm a Canadian and plan to go to North Dakota for a urologist to do an
> ultrasound and biopsy on the prostate. The wait time in Canada is 2 months,
> ridiculous ! I just need the findings, treatment will be done back in
> Canada. Someone suggested about $2500 US , does this sound in the range?.
Checking posts from a couple of years ago, the $1000 range sounds more
reasonable.
However, you should be aware that prostate cancer is extremely slow
growing. It doubles on average every 495 days for high Gleason score
cancers, and on average every 577 days for low Gleason score cancers.
Of course, cancer is a scary sounding word, but for prostate cancer, the
best thing you can do is to educate yourself. There are many options
available, with differing degrees of success and differing severity of
side effects. It will probably take you more than two months to fully
understand what all of your options are. There are web sites dedicated
to prostate cancer, books dedicated to prostate cancer, and the
newsgroup alt.support.cancer.prostate. All of these sources have an
enormous amount of information which takes time to digest.
Ed Friedman
Ed Friedman
wolf2 - 25 Oct 2005 06:39 GMT
Thanks Ed for your reply.
I did not provide all the details of my situation. The point is I have a St
Jude Mechanical heart valve which can be infected and then I have a major
problem.
My concern is if it's Prostatis and I'm not on medication for 2 months
....... I understand the only real way to detect Prostatitis is by a biopsy
.
My GP doesn't feel I have an infection but if I do, 2 months in my opinion
is far to long to wait.
Yes, I concur that if it was for a cancer check, the 2 months might be
acceptable. Thanks again.
>> HI... I'm a Canadian and plan to go to North Dakota for a urologist to do
>> an ultrasound and biopsy on the prostate. The wait time in Canada is 2
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> Ed Friedman