holy smokes, bad PSA tests

Wow: I specifically asked for the "Immulite 2000" test from my doctor to be sure that I was indeed getting the ultra-sensitive PSA test just this past Tuesday! Now, I am not sure whether the lab was notified or perhaps even used the affected lot. So now I wait a few more days for the questionable results. More uncertainty to a very uncertain disease.

Recall notice is below at this address:

http://medicinskudstyr.dk/~/media/4D08BD38D6E547F4AF8732986448FB3C.ashx

Bill K. from NJ
Age 58, free PSA 21%, total PSA 3.3, neg DRE, Bx May 2011...1/12 cores+, at 30% Gleason 3+4=7
daVinci RRP July 2011, Downgraded to Gleason 3+3, 67 grams, 10% PCa Volume, contained.
All PSA'sa since =<0.015. Awaiting test results?

David, you may want to amend the thread title a bit so readers do not think it was your PSA result that sucked.

"Thousands of men in central Pennsylvania received shocking news in the mail this summer: their tests for prostate-specific antigen, an indicator of cancer, may have been inaccurate.

Pinnacle Health of Harrisburg, Pa., sent letters to 7,500 patients to inform them of a faulty chemical in the tests used to measure levels of the protein secreted by their prostate glands. It showed higher levels of the protein than were actually present."

I guess it was fortunate that I was traveling so much this summer that I had PSA tests at my local hospital lab, then Labcorp, then Quest and then UF & Shands to spread my risk.

Of course so many different assays makes the comparability problematic so we rely only on the PSA at Shands that went from 3.68 to 0.90 to 0.68 with another to be taken in November.

Some came out as low at 0.20 but this error being reported evidently scores them too high, not too low.

LupronJim