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I see from your e-mail address that you are likely in the United Kingdom. If that is so, your NHS treatment will vary considerably and will often require you to be pro-active.
the results of an MRI scan are usually available immediately (here in Australia I wait to take them with me) but in other cases they may take two or three days to wend their way through a bureacratic jungle. Your surgeon should certanly have them by now and it is just not on for him not to tell you what the results are.
So go for it and get them - also ask for a copy of the results. You are entitled to copies of all medical reports at no cost beyind the cost of making the copies. Read the report and gain your own understanding of what it says, not what a surgeon interprets it as saying.
And start your file now for all your reports. Dealing with PCa is not a sprint - it's a marathon and it is important to track changes over the many years you are likely to live after diagnosis.
