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I am really pleased for you with your biopsy result, KGK. The best immediate plan for you now is to thoroughly enjoy the Christmas and New Year holiday and put all prostate thoughts behind you! (I was going to say sit on those thoughts).
I don't know what you can do to stop your PIN from becoming PC and I am not sure that PIN will necessarily become PC anyway. But you have proved Terry right in that a high (even very high) PSA does not necessarily mean cancer.
In your situation, I would watch and wait with PSA's every 3 months initially and then maybe 6 months. But I would also schedule another biopsy in one year or earlier if the PSA trends up. I would also think that prostate mapping with MRI would be advisable. My initial take on your result is that if 12 needles didn't find anything, then IF anything is there it is unlikely to be significant. Your PSA seems to be elevated by other causes.
