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Dave,
My doctor was reluctant to send me for a biopsy and waited for a few years while my PSA bounced around; that was a big mistake for me. Once you get a PSA over 10 then your chance of having cancer is greater than 50% so your chance is even greater than that with a PSA of 11. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night with those odds against me.
The biopsy was not that bad considering it was a test for cancer. You are at the hospital for about two hours. It had no side effects that lasted more than three days for me. Blood in urine and definitetly no sex for three days.
Dave - My PSA was 8.9 and because I had read that a PSA is often not reliable I didn't want to have a biopsy, in fact I was pretty scared of having a biopsy to boot. Never the less I was persuaded to have one and the actuality amounted to very little - I had no pain whatsoever, just blood in the urine for a couple of weeks. I made certain that I was given an anaesthetic for the biopsy. The biopsy showed that I had a Gleason Score of 9 which indicates an aggressive cancer, so it was just as well that I took the action I did.
Ken from NZ
