Posted 1/31/2014 2:14 PM (GMT 0)
Mike -
Something that has always struck me personally when looking at your posts is just how similar the numbers in your signature are to those in mine:
Your pre-treatment PSA was 6.4. Mine was 6.1 (Lupron had brought it down to that).
Your Bx showed 3/12 cores. So did mine.
Your core percentages were (10, 80, 60). Mine were (5, 90, 70).
You were G6(3+3). So was I.
We both opted for radiation.
(However, I'm a bit older than you are).
But I guess it does happen that, given enough people and enough situations, it is statistically inevitable that two particular people in a PCa population will eventually wind up going down similar numerical paths.
But the point I wanted to make in all this is to invite you to look below at my own post radiation PSAs, as I am about a year ahead of you in the RT treatment process: I have been pulling down PSAs of <0.1 since completing RT.
So, to extrapolate here, if I did it with my numbers, similar to yours, then it would seem logical to think that you can do very well with your own post-treatment PSAs.
Granted, no two people's medical situations are ever identical, and other factors inevitably come into play, but it is also true that patterns can be predictive as well.
So it wouldn't seem to hurt if you should say to yourself, "Well, if that guy did it with his numbers, so similar to mine, then maybe I can do it too."
Even if you haven't gone directly to undetectable (for RT) as I seem to have done, you're off to a pretty good start.
Similar beginnings can mean similar outcomes. I hope that's going to be the case here.
Best of luck.