Decifer test question

hewhositsoncushions said:

Steve

Steve

I appreciate you are worried but it might make sense to keep all your questions in one thread (your main one).

You can edit the original title to include the question to make it clear.

That way you get all the information in one place.

Can I also suggest you talk to a therapist about your ongoing fears. You, like me, are stuck fighting fear of the future and (like me) need to figure a way out of it. I honestly don't think answers to a lot of "what if" questions will help you as much as talking to someone will.

Stay strong.

C

Hey this is a legit Subject..

VascodaGama said:

Genomic test

Steve,

The Decipher test got meaning for several purposes, not just to predict recurrence. However, doing it after surgery would practically be impossible without a piece of PCa tissue for sampling and analyze the expression levels of RNA biomarkers. In other words, we would have the means to identify the severity or presence of some disease or the physiological state of an organism. This genomic test can also check for treatments that would not work well in certain patients.

VG

I dint understand what treatments won’t work well in patients .....what’s that test going to show .......about treatments ......2 options. For PC.    Surgery or radiation ....period .......radiation is used in 3 ways .......fir salvage  of if you are too old fir surgery or in bad health fir surgery .. Ok so I asked the first surgeon I saw about it  decifer resting .he said not necessary ..u need surgery.with radistion there is no plan b ...this man was right .should have listened to,him . He said decifer testing just adds more complication and unnecessary findings and issues .....which he was right if u do surgery why would u want to know the risks of your cancer .. just do surgury get the path report see what the report says  and move on ..let’s say you had a clean surgery..no positive margins no nodes.  Very clean ..which happens MORE than not   That 30 % failure rate is WRONG it’s more like 23 %  ..so instead of saying 1 out of 4 fail which are the ones we see here. Don’t forget about the 3 that dont ..fail    so everything g went well .blood test is .002 u are cancer free but the decifer  test may have said ohh you are intermediate risk with a 37 % chance of 5 year reoccurance and a likelyhood of 12% chance of dying in 10years from this .....WHY would. you Want to know this WHY so u can worry about it ,.a lot .it’s like the news all u see is bad thing and sometimes good things ..on this forum it’s like the news ....let’s say This I think the ONLY reason to do decifer testing would be if you r considering active survaillsnce  otherwise it’s not needed ...just my opinion