Authorization Received and 3t MRI Scheduled

Insurance (Medicare Advantage Plan) has authorized and I am scheduled for a 3T MRI on April 20th, the day before I leave for Austin.

3T MRI is the most advanced MRI and gives radiologists very, very detailed views of whatever organ they are looking at.  It quite fascinating.  Read about it here.

This MRI will tell us if the cancer is still confined to the gland or has become "extracapsular" (i.e. the cancer is outside the gland and invading other organs which was the case 4 years ago) and, if I decide to go through with another biopsy, it allows the surgeon to target only the tumor and not have to do 12 random cores.

We'll see just where I'm at soon.