NEVER Get Prostate Cancer Surgery?! (Here’s Why…)
Surgeons love to operate… and men with prostate cancer are sitting ducks.
Having cancer surgically removed might seem like an obvious choice—but it’s not.
In reality, doing nothing is likely your best, safest option.
The problem is that current testing options don’t tell you if your cancer is aggressive (and needs to be removed), or if it’s slow-growing and unlikely to cause any complications (and can stay put).
Now there’s a revolutionary test that can accurately identify your risk of aggressive prostate cancer…
And it gives you the answers you need to make the BEST decision for your future.
Researchers spent more than a decade studying over 20,000 men to determine the most accurate biomarkers to predict how aggressive prostate cancer is.
The result is the 4Kscore Test. It is called 4K because it measures four prostate-specific kallikrein proteins (prostate-specific antigen (PSA), total PSA, intact PSA, and human kallikrein 2).
These test results are then combined with clinical information in a unique algorithm that calculates a patient’s risk for aggressive prostate cancer (defined as 7 or higher on the Gleason score).
Over 20 years, men with scores of less than 7.5 percent rarely progressed to advanced prostate cancer.
The test is incredibly accurate, with fewer than 2 percent of significant cancers being missed, and ZERO more aggressive (Gleason 8) cancers being missed.
Those are results I can stand behind.
A study on over 600 patients found that using the 4K test led to 64 percent fewer biopsies.
This is a big deal because biopsies are incredibly invasive and can come with some pretty hefty complications, like bleeding, urinary retention, and life-threatening infections. And all too often, the results encourage men to get a surgery that can DESTROY your quality of life.
The bottom line is that this test can take the guesswork out of prostate cancer testing and treatments.
If you’ve had a PSA test and are considering a biopsy, talk to your doctor about getting a 4Kscore Test first.
It’s likely not covered by insurance, but the out-of-pocket cost is nothing compared to what getting an unnecessary surgery could cost your quality of life.