Question: Rectal exam…you have cancer?
I took my husband to a doctor he never seen he put a glove on and put his fingers in his anus for a couple seconds walked to his desk and said you have cancer I am 99.9 % sure .could you tell me how accurate this is?
Prostate cancer can sometimes feel like a hard or bumpy area. A PSA test and rectal exam can help find prostate cancer early, but are not 100% sure. But your doctor may have detected a major abnormality or may be aware of other conditions, history etc…
its absolutely wrong to label a patient as having a cancer just by clinical examination. just feeling a bump/growth does not mean he has cancer. there are many benign conditions. get blood tests, colonoscopy done. a histopathology examination of the growth will be confirmatory