PSA rising

Doctor said if they find more cancer we will have to do radiation or some medicine that could cause heart failure her diabetes do someone have a advice because he said the radiation could rupture my uretha or make it soft and my implant could squeeze through don't want that and don't want diabetes or heart failure could I have more advice if it is it something that they're not telling me

Where are you located? After surgery your PSA should be undetectable. When it does increase, 0.20 is considered to be a recurrence of the cancer and salvage radiation would have been more effective before it got to the level. Certainly at 3.1 it is even more concern. Presently it would be best to have scans done to indicate where the cancer is. If it is found outside the radiation area then salvage radiation will be of limited benefit.

All treatments, including your surgery, often have negative side effects. The ones you are referring with drugs to slow the cancer and radiation to kill cancer are not common in the way you describe. If they were, no one would use such methods.

Yes that is what I thought I was 00.1 for Stu least 2 years after my surgery but now going up had cat scan bone scan last year nothing detected so I'm going to see a oncologist in July my urologist was telling me that the radiation could damage my artificial sphincter

I will echo SR. SAILOR'S wise and sage advice ...

It is May 1st ---- and you mentioned you have an appointment in July.

You have everything to gain by becoming your own advocate, and asking for a more timely appointment.

Spring is already here ---- there's no reason you need to wait until summer to address your medical concerns.

Most oncologists save an appointment or two, each week, for patient needs that arise.

Make a call, Monday morning, and ask to see a top-notch medical oncologist this month.

Sometimes we have to be our own advocate, and push forward and state a concern, when the need arises.

Something I do now --- I book my next follow-up appointments in advance, as I know some oncology centers get booked up.

My oncologist looks after my case like a hawk ---- that's to my benefit ---- and I check in with him monthly, with labs done every month.

Each case is different, but this is the follow-up care plan that I need.

You deserve an appointment SOON --- not later this summer. Please find a way to see an oncologist soon --- you deserve the best.

Looking out for you --- wanting all the best for you ~~~

CYCLONE ~~~ # Iowa State University