Hi,

My dad has been diagnosed with prostate cancer from blood tests and from x-ray believe it has spread to his bones and possibly his lungs (or he might have lung cancer too). He is booked in for a CT scan and another scan for his bones (I'm not sure what this is). He is also booked in for a biopsy of his prostate. He is very against the idea of an invasive procedure is there any literature about the benefits of the biopsy over other tests on the treatment or prognosis of his cancer, as we're aware that it's fairly advanced and they have looked at his cancer cells circulating in his blood. I don't want him to be missing any information, but I also don't want him to undergo a procedure he's going to find very stressful if it's not going to add very much more information. If it's going to help I want him to do it, but he thinks it's just another confirmation of what he has.

(Sorry if some of it doesn't make sense basing this off conversations with my dad not the doctors)

Hope this is the right place to post to. 

Thanks for anyone getting back.