Two weeks in and I am visiting the urologist at Ryde clinic. He also wants to perform a DRE (digital rectal examination)This is very quick, about 5 seconds and he confirms my doctors findings and views the lumpy prostate with suspicion.(I am starting to get used to these DREs!!!)
The PSA test is 47. Apparently a man of my age (62) should have a PSA level of between 2 & 4. The urologist declares that he is 99% certain I have cancer and books me in for a prostate biopsy at St. Marys Hospital, Newport.
I am prescribed some tablets to help me wee a bit easier and also some antibiotics to start taking the morning of the biopsy.
He informs me that around 150 men on the Isle of Wight are diagnosed each year and that I will probably have the biopsy next week as waiting lists are amongst the shortest in the UK for this proceedure here on the Island. I am given a booklet- Prostate Cancer for Newly Diagnosed Men - just about official now then.
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