Prostate cancer suspicion !

Frankly if I had the RSI-MRI at my doorstep, I wouldn't be hiking up to Ventura for a CDUS. But if it makes you more comfortable and you can afford the out of pocket, there's no harm in it.

I've chosen cdus after some research rather than going with a biopsy done by the local urologist ,than thinks evolved and I end up doing more research ,thanks to this website,and this is how I decided to go to ucsd !!!

Doctor Parsons,who's the main guy at ucsd ,never give me this option.he went based on dr bahn dx and admitted me into the ac program and trial!!

And again that was before JH pathology report!!

Post Edited (Novi68) : 6/15/2017 1:12:04 PM (GMT-6)

I'm officially enrolled into the prostvac trial for ac at ucsd,with dr Parsons !
So they run some test and my psa is 1.15 ?! everything else within the normal limits ,WBC a little low ,glucose a little high ,cause they drawn blood right after I eat.
It's worth mentioning that over the last two months,I drastically change my diet :no meat,diary,just tomato sauce ,soy milk (to the point were my breast hurts,so I dropped that),whole grain ,almond butter,broccoli tea ,fish ,fruits ,veggies etc.
I took some metformin,zyflamend ,aspirine but just sporadically cause I can't tolerate to much !

Post Edited (Novi68) : 8/8/2017 4:31:48 PM (GMT-6)

That's good news - I hope the next biopsy is negative too.

Not "worry" - you never had any significant cancer to begin with. But for men with very low risk PC, it would not be surprising to miss the cancer on a first rebiopsy. That happens in a quarter of cases, even without any treatment. My question is how should you monitor this? After radiation, we expect the PSA to get very low over time - ideally under 0.5, and we might explore for a recurrence if the PSA gets 2.0 higher. I think you should ask Dr. Parsons what PSA benchmarks he will use to ascertain (1) success of treatment and (2) biochemical recurrence.

Do you know for a fact that you received the Prostvac and not the placebo?

/clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02326805

Eventually the test will be unblinded and you will know for sure. There may be albumin in the placebo as well that can cause flu-like symptoms. No, biochemical recurrence can happen after any treatment - it just means the PSA has increased to some arbitrary value that suggests a clinical recurrence has occurred.

Please let me know how your doctor answers those questions.

Not really necessary since there was nothing to report.

BTW- What did he say about the RSI-MRI when you asked? I know a patient who would be interested.