Thanks for the kind words, pattersson. Especially glad that your PSA has stabilized. Robert, you and I have extremely similar numbers, so hopefully this will be of use to you. Today my doctor had no...
Going for brachy, I expect the result of my meeting later today with my doctor will be that he'll want more frequent testing before recommending any new procedures. My guess is that if the PSA scores...
Thanks to Andrew, Robert, oldbeek, and Going for brachy for the replies. It's nice to have some conversation with guys who understand some of the emotions you go through with prostate cancer. To...
We are experiencing a little bit of a roller coaster of emotions right now. The annual PSA test I took this past Wednesday came back at .05. That is the highest result I have gotten in the ten years...
that's great news. you've burned up some hours worrying. now it's time to go and celebrate .009. it's a good day....
hey tennis23, i know it is easy to worry about every number you get. boy, do i know. but yours sound very good to me. if i am reading your results correctly you had two previous results with PSA less...
hey rob, i remember that we had similar numbers and that our psa started rising about the same time. i see you had SRT. after my first .03 reading my doctor wanted to hold off for a while to see if...
Just an update since my last post. My six month PSA test taken in late January came back at .03. That's up .01 from the June 2015 test, but the same as the January 2015 test. Given this result my...
Congratulations, that's great to hear. About a year after my surgery my PSA spiked from <.01 to .12 in three months. My doctor said it was likely an aggressive form of cancer and started talking...
Welcome to the forum. While this isn't necessarily a forum any of us wants to be on, it is a great place to get quality information. I was 59 and had your exact PSA level and similar Gleason score...
A couple of posters asked that I keep them posted on what has been happening. so here goes. After my late January PSA test came back at .03, my doctor scheduled a follow up PSA for June 1 (today)....
Allen, thanks for the response and the clarification. I wasn't referring to .03 when I said the studies came up with conflicting conclusions for my history. In the detail of the UCLA study there was...
Wow Rob, we do have similar numbers and history. Your Gleason is higher than mine but I had positive margins, so that makes us even more comparable. Let's stay in touch. The oncologist who did my...
Hey Jeff, I kind of figured using .01 readings from 2009 wasn't kosher. But it was kind of fun to come up with a PSADT over six years, anyway....
Hey Tom, thanks for responding. The Koulikov study based its conclusions on PSA readings from the first three years after RP. Thus that study would always assign people with my history as part of the...
I hear you, Doug. Sometimes I think the more studies I read the less I understand. Treating prostate cancer is a developing science, and so I guess large variations in results of individual research...
Jeff, I should have mentioned I just read a study that suggests PSADT projections using ultrasensitive results grossly underestimates real PSADT a large percentage of the time. One more reason to get...
Jeff, thanks for responding. I appreciate your helping me out. The Koulikov study Allen referenced used a cutoff point of >.03, not =.03. Also, the study is based on PSA readings for the first three...
Allen, thanks for the referral to the article. As it turns out my previous googling for information had led me to a few of your other articles. All well written, informative, and very helpful. Just...
Jeff, I took your advice and plotted all my PSA results going back to the first .01 reading i got, which was six months after my surgery. I found a site that explained how to use excel to calculate...
Hey Doug, I know that is good advice. I think what is affecting me is that after five years with clean tests I pretty much felt I had this beat. Certainly the odds were with me. So even though the...
Hey phenom and Jeff, thanks for the comments. Although I have read hundreds of posts on here, I am still new to posting and am not sure what other information I should add to my signature. Phenom,...
Ah, OK, I understand. Again, thanks for responding. I'll be interested to see what comes next for both of us....
Doug, thanks for the welcome. I had surgery at the age of 59 and turn 66 in a few weeks. I am not sure I understand your comment about benign cells. I thought positive margins meant cancerous cells...
I have been reading this forum for six years and have decided to take the plunge as a poster. The impetus to do so is my first detectable PSA reading of .02 at 75 months (early December, 2014) and...