I got the finger and he felt a bump so I had the biopsy. I think it was 6 out of 14 that came back as cancer. It was Gleason 4+3 which means it is not the type that WILL spread but is the type that will LIKELY spread so I had to have it taken care of because HAS is the next step of LIKELY. It was only in one side of my prostate and localized so I was lucky that we caught it before it migrated out. With a PSA of only 4 or 4.5 ( I forget which one) I figured it was still localized and the bone scan and MRI proved it.
The lucky thing for me was that he felt the tumor. Otherwise, my PSA wasn't alarming to him and he said we would monitor it. Then he said, "As long as you're here, let me give you a check" and that's when he felt the tumor. If hadn't checked me, it probably would have spread outside of my prostate before it was caught.
Through the whole thing, the two most concerning times with me were the biopsy (which was a piece of cake) and waiting for the results of the bone scan (which did cause some sleepless nights). Once I knew it hadn't spread, I wasn't worried about the cancer anymore. I was just worried about the Lupron.
