Re: color doppler ultrasound to detect prostate cancer?

In article <1145824282.849613.48590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"ugghle" <ugghle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jason wrote:
In article <C06FCB31.22F70%salmonegg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Salmon Egg
<salmonegg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 4/22/06 8:31 AM, in article
1145719875.534088.197990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jesse"
<utopia1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've had PSA and Free PSA and hope to avoid a biopsy, which may turn
out to be negative like one I had 4 years ago. What do people think
about color doppler ultrasound as a step towards clarifying the
diagnoisis?

Jesse Lemisch

The question seems to be like an oxymoron. Is malignant tissue supposed to
travel at a different speed than than benign tissue?

Bill
-- Ferme le Bush

I believe the only way to be certain as to whether or not cancer is
present is by conducting a biopsy. I once saw a spot on on lung X-Ray and
asked the doctor if the person had lung cancer and the doctor replied--"I
don't know until I see the results of the biopsy."
Jason


Doctors have been taught that tissue is the standard, but I think the
science and computers and new technology have made that almost obsolete.

Only time will tell. As of now, doctors can NOT look at a picture of a
tumor and determine whether or not it cancerous. They either remove the
tumor--eg. breast tumor--or they take a biopsy. In both cases, the doctor
does not know whether or not cancer was present until tests are done on
the tumor or on the biopsy.
In some cases, such as a "spot" on a lung X-Ray-they may take X-Rays of
the lung every three months to determine if the "spot" growns in size or
remains the same size. In some cases, "spots" on the lung are nothing more
than scars instead of tumors.
Jason

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