Just because a doctor tells you you need a biopsy doesn't make it an emergency. I've had a few of them, of various things, and have come to the conclusion that if insurance will pay for it, and the doctor can medically justify it, even marginally, then it's a potential source of income for the doctor and all they need to do is convince you to have it.

Not to editorialize, but our medical system sucks. Large portions of it are purely commercial, and a lot of stuff gets done only because it represents income. By the same token, a lot of stuff that SHOULD get done, doesn't, because the insurance companies do everything they can to reduce the stuff they have to pay for.

My wonderful brother-in-law is dying of colon cancer. He was Stage 4 when it was discovered. That was around 4 years ago. He lives in England and has National Health Care, for which he pays nothing, with no copayments. Far from withholding treatment, from what I've seen he's been getting far superior care to what my mother went through with her ovarian cancer here in the U.S. Every complication has been dealt with, dozens of things which would have most likely killed him here have been treated, aggressively and competently. Blood clots, kidney problems, bone mestastases, huge fluid blisters, all treated until he recovered from them. It's one thing after another now, of course, but they've been doing their best to keep him comfortable and as healthy as possible, and he's in reasonably good cheer and not feeling neglected and can enjoy his family. He's received no random care or treatments simply because they were profitable, and been denied nothing that was in his best interest. He's made some end-of-life decisions for himself, which they're respecting, but even now, they treat all his collateral and incidental problems that are treatable. All I can conclude is that it's a caring, competent system that does its honest best to look after patients. If he hadn't gone out of his way to avoid doctors for so many years, they may have discovered this while it was still curable, too.

That's the kind of medical system I'd like to have, one where you can trust that they're only doing things that are necessary and in your best interest, and not influenced by commercial interests.

Meanwhile, there's a possibility that you might get a positive (i.e. bad) biopsy, but odds are against it. Just remember, though, that most men who get prostate cancer, especially later in life, die with it, not from it. Aggressive treatment of the less aggressive forms of it have not been shown to increase life, and can even shorten it, or make it much more unpleasant. So, in the words of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, DON'T PANIC!

I'll be, as we Quakers say, "holding you in the Light," our way of saying we're sending you the loving energy that we feel when we're in worship as a congregational body. :-)

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Doctors are almost as bad as auto mechanics these days.