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My psa is between 8 and 9 but biopsies are negative - why?
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Possible: Either you have a case of prostatitis / BPH only or your biopsies have missed the target (not common). Sometimes due to very small areas of cancer in the prostate a diagnosis can be hard to make.
Answered 6/10/2014
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