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Tom, In my opinion, after all these years of reading stories, studies and everything I can lay my hands or eye on about prostate cancer, I would say that the chances of this pain/discomfort being caused by PCa is as close to zero as is possible in a disease that has no rules.
I see from your story at TOM F you had a sixteen needle biopsy. That number of needles - 25% more than the normal number increases the chance of injury to the gland and reduces the chance of missing any aberrant cells.
Thanks Terry, that's good enough for me as being very unlikely to be related to the cancer, more likely an after effect of the biospy procedure, but will follow up with the Urologist to be sure!
