What’s a Gleason Score?

If you’ve never heard or understood what a Gleason score is, this article written by Jenna Fletcher and reviewed by Christina Chun, MPH, should help to enlighten you.

Those men diagnosed with prostate cancer want to know their outlook and treatment plan quickly. The Gleason score will definitely play a major role in them deciding both of these issues. Once a doctor diagnoses the cancer and a biopsy of the cells has been done, the Gleason score will be used to explain the results found.

Determining the aggressiveness of the cancer and the best course of treatment is how the …read more