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====Management====
====Management====
The management changes between Gleason 6, 7 & 8; typically, the implications are:
The management changes between Gleason 6, 7 & 8; typically, the implications are:
* Gleason 6: watchful waiting or radioactive seeds, surgery if patient wants.
* Gleason 6: watchful waiting ''or'' radioactive seeds; surgery if patient wants.
* Gleason 7: do something.
* Gleason 7: do something - often surgery.
* Gleason 8+: bad cancer - do something quickly!
* Gleason 8+: bad cancer - do something quickly!


Bottom line: You want to be sure when you call something Gleason pattern 4.
Bottom line:  
 
*You want to be sure when you call something Gleason pattern 4.
Note:
*The usual caveats apply to the above; if the patient is moribund-- nothing is done, if the patient refuses treatment... nothing is done et cetera.


===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
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