A few years ago my father was diagnosed with prostate caner. He met with his doctors and came up with a treatment plan. As per the doctor he had his PSA levels checked every 6 months for the last few years and all was good.
Recently he had 2 tests come back with a positive PSA levels. He consulted with his doctor about the PSA levels and the doctors recommendation was to immediately start chemotherapy treatment. My dad was a bit skeptical of the positive PSA test because the labs where he had gone for the last few years had not done the PSA test that came back positive. On his own, he went to the lab that had done his test over the last few years and had them run a test.........Normal PSA levels.
He took those results to his doctor, shocked, the doctor sent the 2 positive samples to a 3rd lab. A few days later both samples that tested positive previously came back NORMAL.
Understandably this caused a shit storm at the hospital where the positive results were found as treatment recommendations were given from results there. As for my dad, final recommendation was no treatments at this time and retest in 6 months. This is FUCKING scary, so always trust your gut, if it doesn't feel right do something about it.
Recently he had 2 tests come back with a positive PSA levels. He consulted with his doctor about the PSA levels and the doctors recommendation was to immediately start chemotherapy treatment. My dad was a bit skeptical of the positive PSA test because the labs where he had gone for the last few years had not done the PSA test that came back positive. On his own, he went to the lab that had done his test over the last few years and had them run a test.........Normal PSA levels.
He took those results to his doctor, shocked, the doctor sent the 2 positive samples to a 3rd lab. A few days later both samples that tested positive previously came back NORMAL.
Understandably this caused a shit storm at the hospital where the positive results were found as treatment recommendations were given from results there. As for my dad, final recommendation was no treatments at this time and retest in 6 months. This is FUCKING scary, so always trust your gut, if it doesn't feel right do something about it.