The prostate cancer workup has been rebuilt around imaging, precision, and patience. The Atlanta specialist walks through what happens after the number comes back high, and why the modern answer looks nothing like your father's.
THE NUMBER ARRIVES without ceremony. A routine physical, a blood draw you barely remember, and then a line in your patient portal: PSA 5.2, with a small flag beside it. You do what everyone does. You search it. Within four minutes you have read the words biopsy, cancer, and incontinence, and your afternoon is gone.
