Prostate cancer second opinion – For patients
Unsure about your prostate cancer diagnosis? Read what a second opinion involves, how it works and how the cost is handled.
Free digital meeting. You decide whether to go ahead.
You are facing a difficult decision
You have been told you have prostate cancer and are facing one of the most difficult decisions in life: should you have surgery, radiotherapy or wait? That decision deserves a basis you can trust.
Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer among Swedish men. Every year approximately 11,000 men are diagnosed About the disease, and the decision between surgery and active surveillance depends entirely on how aggressive the cancer is Surveillance vs. surgery. Today's Gleason grading rests on a single pathologist's subjective assessment, and research shows that up to 20% of the decisions may be incorrect Limitations of the Gleason method. PCAI replaces the uncertainty with an objective AI index, trained on 17,700 patients with up to 20 years of follow-up PCAI.
11,000
men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in Sweden every year
The national care programme
Up to 20%
of treatment decisions may be incorrect
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What you will find here
- What is a second opinion?
- How does it work?
- How does the cost work? What does it cost?
- Book a free meeting
Would you like to understand the disease and the diagnostic work-up first? Start with about prostate cancer. Would you like to understand the method behind our assessment? Read about PCAI.
Everything under For patients
- What is a second opinion?A second opinion means letting an independent method analyse your biopsy. Read what it involves and why it may be decisive for your decision.
- How does it work?From a free meeting to a written report. See how Spearpoint's second opinion works in 8 simple steps – you need to do very little yourself.
- What does it cost?What is included in a PCAI-based second opinion? We go through the scope at a free initial meeting.
- Book a meetingBook a free and non-binding meeting with Spearpoint. We go through your situation and explain what a PCAI analysis could give you.
It is wise to ask around
You are welcome to contact us to discuss a second opinion. The meeting is free of charge. If you feel afterwards that this is right for you, you can simply order a second opinion.