“Maybe a way of looking into the prostate gland with an xray type of machine is the way to go.”
Power Color Doppler ultrasound is the best currently available non-invasive method, but it can not definitively diagnose prostate cancer. Biopsies aren’t definitive either unless they’re positive (i.e., if cancer cells are missed by the biopsy needle you’ll get a false negative).
You got that right.
I knew I had prostate cancer about 7 years before the biopsies proved it. I had all the symptoms and It took 3 sets of biopsies years apart to detect it.
I wanted the radioactive seeds implanted but my prostate was so large they didn't want to take a chance it might enlarge it more.
It ended up I got radiated for 42 days Mon- Fri.
Because your prostate moves around about a quarter of an inch on a day to day basis , and to avoid screwing up other body parts in that area; they inserted 2 Gold slivers into my prostate so they could target it exactly on each day of the radiation. Years ago many people were destroyed by radiation hitting outside the prostate and causing the people to have a miserable lifestyle. -tom