My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer

[Anujsanghvi]

He was asked to go through a biopsy and the report is as follows :

Gross description
Twelve cores of tissue

Microscopic description
Adenocarcinoma of prostate
Gleasons score 4+5=9

Perineural invasion is seen

The tumour involves all the ten cores and occupies approximately 95% of the total volume of the cores.


I Google searched that and found out it was prostate cancer. Could you please tell me how far is it from last stage cancer?

[JGF25]

Hi there....I can't give you timelines understandably.  Gleason score 4 + 5 means that the most common cancer seen is a Gleason 4 and the second most common is a 5.  From my own husband's prostate journey, Gleason 4 is intermediately growing and Gleason 5 is fast growing so this makes sense that there would be perineural invasion which means the cancer is seen along a nerve within the prostate.  

His urologist should be referring your father for treatment.  How old is he if I may ask?  

[Anujsanghvi]

Also please tell me how much time does he have