confusing pathological biopsy report

I know this is a really stupid question in some ways, but I had my urologist give me a copy of my surgical pathological report at my last visit, the report said the stage was T2, no spread to lymph nodes nor seminal vesicles, just stage T2. Shouldn't it say T2a or T2b or T2c? I'm somewhat confused by this, didn't think to ask uro at the time, just wondering why it didn't specify more.............

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my age=52 when all this happened,

PS my signature says T2a but I just assumed that from my first post-op visit with uro, that's not what the pathological report actually says...

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my age=52 when all this happened,

I think you are pretty wright with your diagnosis of T2a, by the sounds of it.  I think T2a refers to tumor only on left side, T2b tumor only on right side, and T2c tumor found on both sides of lobe. 

But what the heck, any T2 stage is classified fantastic in my books. 

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Age 51yrs

NotHard has nailed it. T2 is the general description of prostate confined tumour. T2 is further subdivided into a,b and c. T2a is confined to less than 1/2 of one side, T2b more than 1/2 on one side and T2c both sides but confined within prostate. All in all a very good result......way to go
www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=2720#tnm
Bill

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1/05 PSA----2.9 3/06-----3.2 3/07-------4.1 5/07------3.9 All negative DREs
Aged 59 when diagnosed
Biopsy 6/07
4 of 10 cores positive for Adenocarcinoma-------bummer!
Core 1 <5%, core 2----50%, core 3----60%, core 4----50%
Biopsy Pathologist's comment:
Gleason 4+3=7 (80% grade 4) Stage T2c
Neither extracapsular nor perineural invasion is identified
CT scan and Bone scan show no evidence of metastases
Da Vinci RP Aug 10th 2007
Post-op pathology:
Positive for perineural invasion and 1 small focal extension
Negative at surgical margins, negative node and negative vesicle involvement
Some 4+4=8 identified ........upgraded to Gleason 8
PSA Oct 07 <0.1 undetectable
PSA Jan 08 <0.1 undetectable
PSA April 08 <0.001 undetectable (disregarded due to lab "misreporting")
PSA August 08 <0.001 undetectable (disregarded due to lab "misreporting")
Post-op pathology rechecked by new lab:
Gleason downgraded to 4+3=7
Focal extension comprised of grade 3 cells
PSA September 08 <0.01 (new lab)
PSA February 09 <0.01

Sounds like a good report to me!  David