Urolift and MRI for Prostate cancer
I had an Urolift installed in my prostate in 2020 after having a diagnosis of prostate cancer in 2019, Gleason 6. My urologist told me it wouldn't interfere with MRIs in the future and he kept ordering MRIs to see if the cancer had grown.
After a few MRIs later, the results came back negative. After going to a different urologist, he said I needed a PMSA - PET SCAN which revealed numerous Gleason 8s and 9s. After radiation treatments and 2 years later battling this, now aggressive cancer, don't believe the Urolift doesn't impede the MRI results.
Hi
. Thank you for your willingness to share your story. I found this study from 2023 on the impact of the Urolift on the quality of MRI results: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10786202/. The authors conclude "The UroLift device causes significant artifacts on prostate MRI, which can result in poor image quality and limit the diagnostic capabilities. Patients should be counselled about this correlation and its potential implications for subsequent prostate cancer workup using MRI." Hopefully medical personnel today will become familiar with these limitations and counsel patients accordingly. How are you currently doing? Please know that this community is here for you. Best, Richard (Team Member) This would have been good to know this before having the Urolift put in. I'm doing okay, and on ADT for 1 more year, 2 years total. Side effects are hard to handle, but so far undetectable with testosterone and PSA. High recurrent rate though.
Urolift is basically Uro-Stent 2.0 imo. Urostent was abandoned.
I was also heavily pressured into urolift by the man who was supposed to be protecting me.
I think urolift is the worst performer of any of the urine flow procedures. My strong flow lasted only weeks.
Also imo urolift should NEVER be done on a man with PCa. THINK.. they are punching metal clips from inside to the outside of the prostate, possibly sending PCa cells to the abdomen. Then…they TENSION all of the clips putting the whole prostate in compression. Think of what happens when you squeeze a wet sponge… all of the contents pours out.
Greenlight or maybe turpI would advise any man to find another doc if his urologist is a urolift salesman
