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Well, Ron, it certainly is a complex business!! But you're getting there.
I must say when I was diagnosed I found it difficult to understand how I could have Gleason Score of 5 or 6 or 7, depending on whose findings I believed - and of course now those would likely be 6 or 7 or 8!! So that's quite a range, especially when you consider I was staged from T1c through to T4 and my PSA was up and down.
Feed all those into one of the nomograms and you get a range of answers that says in effect "We really don't know what to say."
Good luck - don't worry too much about that little GG 5
