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Originally Posted by Nathans_Dad
As far as the hard lump poster, the positive predictive value of finding a lump on DRE is somewhere between 16 and 60% depending on what study you read. Most studies fall somewhere in the 30% range. So of those people with positive tests, only 30% actually have cancer as the source of that positive test. Bottom line, don't get all worked up over a lump in the prostate.
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Thanks, I'll see what happens.