Before a Prostate Biopsy: Test With MyProstateScore

One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. Prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, is a protein produced by normal, as well as malignant, cells of the prostate gland, and is elevated in most men who have prostate cancer.
However, the PSA can also very commonly be elevated in men who do not have cancer or have low-risk cancer that requires an active surveillance plan. As a result, unnecessary biopsies, surgeries, and treatments may be done without knowing the true risk of cancer to the patient.
A better solution? A more accurate test that could distinguish between patients who have an early, aggressive cancer and should proceed to biopsy, and those with a false positive PSA test who could safely forego biopsy.
MyProstateScore is a urine test that patients with an elevated PSA can get with their urologist. Unlike PSA, which can be elevated for several reasons, MyProstateScore measures two components of urine that are associated specifically with prostate cancer.
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[@anthonyshaw8698]

How come I can't find any doctor's who know about this testing?

[@richardness7666]

I had a 3.1 PSA when diagnosed with a high risk advanced prostate cancer. How do you explain that?

[@johnfowler6189]

How come the doctor didn't mention a PSMA PET scan with either Florine 18 or Gallium 68 which detects malignant tumors in the prostate? This noninvasive test is used in Europe to decide the need for a biopsy. Just the opposite in the US because Heath Care providers, including Medicare won't pay for the test unless a biopsy is done first. It's all about the money

[@JB-be8co]

My husband psa total shows 16.57*
But afte a month it comes down to 10.700
Free psa shows 1.9
Percentage 18%
He doesn't have any health problems except frequent in urination.
He is 73 years old. Is he needs to go biopsy?

[@claytonhubbard612]

Whatever you do, don’t get a MRI omg What’s the big deal with the MRI? Why don’t people get them?

[@robertheinkel6225]

Cost

[@claytonhubbard612]

Biopsy cost more and might not be necessary depending on the mri

[@mactheslovac8673]

Money and most of time insurance doesn't cover

[@johnbaydar6321]

Insurance DOES cover MRI with and without contrast if you have ORIGINAL Medicare! (Dis)Advantage Medicare İnsurance ALWAYS restrict and decide for you, taking the decision out of the patient and doctors’ hands!! You may as well move to an authoritarian country like Russia, China, North Korea for that kind of treatment. Or have a life threatening pregnancy in AL, TN or TX. So
SHAMEFUL!

[@janetw9430]

I think doctors jump to treatment is to put money in their back pockets.