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Does diffuse high grade PIN in a low risk prostate cancer patient affect your recommendation for surveillance?

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Radiation Oncology · UC San Diego
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No. If the patient otherwise has low-risk prostate cancer, surveillance is appropriate.

The diffuse high-grade PIN might raise the chance of occult cancer (that could be higher grade), but not more so than a widespread Gleason 3+3 disease, which is not, by itself, a contraindication to active survei...

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