How fast does a gleason 8 prostate cancer grow

Can you tell us how did you get such diagnosis of "cancer whole in the prostate"?

Traditional Bone scans, CT and MRI rarely manage to identify lesions smaller than 1 cm. I believe that your assertion on cancer's location is just a guessing opinion. In any case, prostate cancer does not spread overnight. It takes years to settle at other environments/tissues so that not much difference in your status would exist if you decide to wait six months for an intervention.

After been diagnosed one should educate on the disease issues. It is common to take about two to four months from diagnosis to treatment, doing several tests and exams to be certain of a due clinical stage. After that one should get second opinions on available treatments and advance with a satisfying therapy one trusts to be his best.

Age, family, other existing or expected illnesses and financing affairs should also be considered in any decision because PCa treatments affect the way we conduct our lives forever.

Gleason score 8 involving grade 4 are considered risky cases similar to grade 5 that produce low levels of PSA. Without much information on your case history it is difficult to opinion but I believe that you should not rush things thinking that such would influence the outcomes. Act coordinately and timely and discuss the matter with family members.

Best of lucks.

VG

Hi,

It also depends on how the numbers are arranged, if it 5+3, that means that the majority of the cancer cells were at a 5(more agressive) and the rest were at a 3(less agressive).  So 3+5 would show less agressive cancer cells than a 5+3.  The first number shows what the majority of the cells were(grade wise), the second number is the lesser amount(grade wise).

So a gleason score of 8 could be a 3+5 which is better than a 5+3, or it could be a 4+4(both more agressive than a 3).

Hope that helps, your doctor should have the number mix on the biopsy report.

Dave 3+4

I agree with all that everyone above has said regarding delays in treatment.

While your PCa is more aggressive than most, most PCa cancers are so slow by comparison that the relative aggressiveness might not mean a great deal.

I would proceed in a timely manner, and request sooner appointments when possible, but no need to become frantic; in fact, frantic leads to poor judgement and bad decisions.

I was diagnosed with advanced, whole-body Lymphoma in 2009 ("everywhere").  Between the first CT and my first chemo infusion was waay over two months, and all the doctors told me the time was irrelevant. Of course PCa and Hodgkin's are different, but usually, there is no rush into treatments with many varieties of cancer.

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