This is all about my prostate cancerr so if anybody who is reading this blog, and by anybody, I mean any MEN, who haven’t had their PSA checked then I implore you to go see your GP and ask for it NOW.
In 2017 I was again having a routine blood test via one of the different GPs at the medical center where I am registered and I specifically asked for the PSA test to be included. This test showed my PSA level to be slightly elevated at 4.05 and on seeing the GP about 3 weeks after the first one he asked for another blood test. This time the number was 3.75 which was still too high so I endured another DRE and was again told that it felt OK.
After some discussion, he said he would like to take some advice about the state of my prostate from the Urology department at my local hospital. I was surprised then to receive an appointment to see Urological Consultant in late October 2017. I became worried about my prostate cancer.
The Consultant and I had met many times previously as I had had a Cancer of the Bladder treated successfully by him between 2001 and 2008 and I had been discharged after being clear for 5 years in December 2013.
He arranged an ultrasound scan which told the Consultant that all was OK. However – and this is why I feel so very lucky – he said he would also like an MRI scan “for future reference” as a baseline picture.
Having had the MRI scan he wrote to me in December to say that the MRI scan, showed up a small abnormality, so he would arrange a biopsy to find out if anything sinister was going on.
The hospital called me with an appointment for the prostate biopsy on the 27th of December back at the Urology Department which completely took the edge off my Christmas.
READ more about my prostate cancer