FYI: The annual meeting of the AUA is taking place this week in San Diego from May 4-8. If you go to the AUA website and click on the "Day/Track" on the left side navigation menu, it will show you...
Thanks very much to those who took time to reply, it really helps worry warts like me!...
highlander and others, Thank you for your replies. The anything under 10 points towards cancer and above 20 would be considered good, is that 10% free psa and 20% free psa or the actual raw free psa...
Last week, when my uro massaged my prostrate and obtained urine sample for my pca3 test, he said the size of my prostrate was 50. The other times he reported my prostrate sizes, they were 35 or 40 or...
My uro's nurse just called and told me my results are 12 which characterized as being negative. My uro will not see report until Monday. Do most uro's require patients to come in for an office visit...
Frackme, Thank you for the reply. it helps to hear from someone who has had the same test done. D....
My uro told me the last week that he could do the pca3 test because the fda has approved it. I read today that the fda approved the process in February of 2012. I first heard about the pca3 test...
Thanks for responding, it really helps! The 7.5 psa test was 3-6-2013 and the 11.4 psa was 4-12-2013. i had my urine submitted for pca3 last Thursday (tomorrow will be a week). Waiting for the pca3...
Back in November i felt good about my psa going down from 9.5 to 7.5 and my uro's nurse said my uro wanted me to go back on the same type of antibiotic, which gave me really bad side effects (nausea,...
I had my prostrate massage last Thursday and urine was collected prior to and after the massage and sent to lab for pca3 and for culture also. I have read that 35 is the cut off meaning a result over...
Has your uro massaged your prostrate and obtained a secretion and have it cultured to see if you have an infection? Inflammation and infection can cause psa levels to rise. A biopsy is probably the...
Welcome: The members of this forum have helped me a great deal! I would tell your husband to ask his uro about doing a Pca3 test, which involves massaging the prostrate and collecting a urine sample...
Went to uro today and had prostrate massaged and pre and post urine samples collected for culture and Pca3 test to be done. Was told that after results of Pca3 would discuss possible saturation...
I have had four truss biopsies and none were preceded with an ultrasound by itself. Good Luck to you! Buddy....
My Psa was 4.8 in 2009 and has jumped from that to 6 to 7 to 8 to 9 back to 7 to 11 over the last 5 yrs. i have had 4 truss biopsies over last 5 yrs. all were neg. all dre's have been neg. no pin...
I have an appointment this coming thursday with my uro and i believe he will massage my prostrate and then get a urine sample to obtain my pca3 count. i am going to tell uro i want a saturation...
Ok, i had made up my mind that i would call my uro office tomorrow and schedule a saturation biopsy. Now after reading about MRI (and maybe doppler) guided vrs ultra sound guided biopsies (same as...
After reading more about the PCa3 blood test, i am asking myself why my doctor has not told me about this test or has not done this test. It sounds like this test is pca specific, that is it is a...
Thanks so much for the replies, they are very helpful to me. I have always been concerned about the past 4 biopsies causing damage and possibly spreading any cancer that may be in the prostrate. I...
Thank you for the replies, it is very helpful and appreciated....
Maybe this information means something to someone: July 2009-psa was 4.8;Feb. 2010-psa was 6.6; April 2010-psa was 7.0; March 2011-psa was 6.3; July 2011-psa was 7.0; Sept. 2011-psa was 8.0; Sept....
All my previous biopsies were negative. On my last biopsy, the pathologist stated he saw moderate chronic inflammation in four areas sampled. (i started getting copies of my pathology report for my...
i forgot to add that all my DRE's have been normal and to my knowledge, no PIN cells have been observed on any of my four previous biopsy's....
i posted last week under name D. i am 62 yrs. old and have had four ultrasound rectal biopsy's over the last five years and all were negative. My psa has been as low as 4 in 2009, and then between 6...
Thanks so much for the replies and good wishes! It sure helps to hear from others who are dealing with similar conditions. I just got back from doctor's office and i did request them to check for...
I am new to the forum and have a question. My uro put me on 30 days of antibiotics to see if my psa (7.5) will get lower. How long do i wait after finishing my 30 days of taking the antibiotics...