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Hi Cassidy. Your alarm is understandable, but, as others have said, prostate cancer tends to be very slow-growing. It needs to be identified and a treatment plan put in place, but a delay of several weeks is not cause for concern. In my own case, the time from elevated PSA reading to biopsy was at least 3 or 4 weeks, and even after I was diagnosed with cancer, I didn't have surgery until 4 months later. In fact, for some older patients, the treatment is to just monitor the patient for further developments (watchful waiting), figuring that some other issue will end the patients life in the years that it will take for the prostate cancer to develop into a deadly form. For those of us who are younger (I am 56, but I would include your grandfather, too, at 67), it is more likely that a more active treatment will be necessary. It is unfortunate that health care practitioners don't always take the time to explain things to patients and their families. When we hear the "c-word" we are all likely to be freaked out. A little more explanation can ease the tension. Good luck with the biopsy results, let us know what they find.