This paper may help. I hope it can still be downloaded free of charge, "Establishment of the Optimal Follow-up Schedule..." K. Matsumoto et al. Urology Oncology. Seminars and Original Investigations...
This is what I experience every 6 months. I always tell myself that I should not complain if this is all. This is the minimum tribute we have to give for being cancer patients....
Mumbo: I agree. Moreover, patients that were diagnosed 20 or more years ago received treatments who are not the standard of care today. Like using better equipment for salvage radiation or the newer...
If you are particularly interested in 20 year post surgery statitics, this open publication may be of your interests: Ahberg et al. BMJ Open 2022, 12: e057242...
gfspain: if you want to have an idea of your long term prognosis you may visit the mskcc prostate cancer post-prostatectomy nomogram. Of course, you cannot take the results you get there as written...
Being PT3A it is probable that your increase means something. However, it is slow. I would not seriously consider radiation now, but I certainly would if PSA reaches a value close to 0.1. May I ask...
Boomer 53: Wow, that is a lot of exercise!...
mpr means that the test is able to check several quantitative parameters, like the diffusion of water in different areas. This can only be done using a specific gradient test who requires an...
My pathological report assigned me a localized primary Gleason 5. First psa was 0.08. My surgeon said, typically, "nothing should be done unless it reaches 0.2". I did not believe him and I was more...
Small fluctuations close to the detection limit. In my opinion, you do not have any reason to disturb your sleep thinking about what these figures mean. If there is any worrisome trend, it will be...
With a few exceptions, I guess we always overestimate our power to influence others. Therefore, my answer would be: whatever you say will not matter so much anyway. Therefore, shut up without remorse...
All I can say is that I am a Grade 1 updated to Grade 4 after the pathological report. I am glad I and my doctors considered I had cancer and needed treatment....
A good result indeed....
Congratulations! Ten years behind you here....
DRE is a test depending on the skill and interpretation of the urologist. Moreover, it may give false positives and the true positives usually indicate a relatively high size. With all its faults,...
Since I am not a professional, I answer according to my experience according the stories I have read here and in some other sites. Such a slow growth of post-surgery psa like yours may remain like...
0.05 may mean something or nothing. It depends if it is a value implicitly below detection of your lab procedure; some do not bother to include the < sign or they miss it by mistake. I also noticed...
It is just the 8 week report. Wait to the 3 months test to have a better idea of what is going on. The meaning of the result depends on the laboratory. Most labs give a < before the figure to...
mp-MRI test usually employ the standard PIRADS system to clasify apparent lesions. PIRADS 1-2 mean not significant lesions. Most possible, benign tissue or indolent Gleason 6 cancer. PIRADS 3...
Not completely sure, but I think I have Siemens non-untrasensitive tests as well. But I never get < values, I guess my lab reports raw results directly from the readings. I asked my uro what my...
In my case, I am not no much sure if it is urine or not after reading this thread. Not so much important, anyway....
DT: You are right. I did not have any lymph node removed. I was saved from additional side effects and I guess that my psa would have increased soon without being truly contained, but it is also true...
I also had a dramatic upgrade in the postop path report. I regularly use the mskcc risk calculator and I have recently noticed that, in addition to the path report data, you may introduce now your...
My urologist never mention injections and I am too shy to ask, this guy has a kind of intimidating personality that does not invite to go into intimate details. He just gives me prescriptions for 8...
According to the NMR image the affected area is huge and definitely not contained in the prostate but I guess you already know that. However, even advanced prostate cancer with distant extensions, an...
I was considering SBRT or EBRT as single treatments, though my large prostate was a problem and the addition of HT was needed to reduce its size. Radiation is perfectly OK if you really get the...
I had a similar experience with PIRADS 5 and a bilateral but only with two cores of small percentage Gleason3+3 biopsy. I had an unanimous advice to be treated and I was very much updated to a...
My guess is that you will stay around for more years that you may think now even if you do not do anything. But, as others advice, please do something....
I think everyone is different. Mine has at least the same aspect if not better at rest after surgery. But, in my case, this does not imply a useful perfomance, anyway....
It is great you got a neg biopsy, but it is even better your PIRADS 2 in the MRI test. The biopsy may miss malign tissue but the MRI scans the whole prostate and it has not found anything suspicious...
Anesthesia is indicated for biopsies involving many cores. Maybe you may have one of them, they are more accurate since many cores are taken and analysed....
I stayed more than 24 hours in the ICU room after my surgery. It was because all the normal rooms were ocuppied but I guess spending a night there was mandatory. Whatever your protocol is, be sure...
A side question. What about anaerobic exercise?. I mean to increase muscle, or just try to maintain it, calisthenics, iron pumping, etc. It is good to prevent injuries and to feel stronger which, at...
I had it in 2013, though with significantly less PSA than you. I had a second negative biopsy that was negative. After an strange jump in PSA in next test it went back to my previous levels and it...
It is your decission, but avoiding anxiety as much as possible is also a good benefit for your health....
I agree with Djin Tonic. I share with him to have a path report indicating a contained tumor with a high risk Gleason grade and very low psa for the first 5 years after prostatectomy. Incidentally,...
My psa rose from 5 to 7 after a kidney stone episode. Unfortunately, it rose again the next year and this time did not went down until the prostate was removed. Take it just as another personal...
Today I am officially among that near to 100% people who survive 5 years after a diagnosis of localized PCa. Not less importantly, I am especially glad I have also survived from "other causes"....
Great, it seems you have a negative amount of psa!. Your lab does not seem much concerned about basic maths....
Succesive good psa tests are encouraging but I guess nobody can be sure when this is really over. This will be worry me for the rest of my life, though, of course, not so much as to interfere with it...
I also have these ups and downs, even amplified. Other people are having similar results from the same lab. I guess every lab has its own criterion to report results. Since my tests are not...
My thought: No way I will. (Moderate conpsumtion of course)....
Sometimes I think I do not like nowadays music in the same way older people did not like r&r, r&b and pop music of the sixties. But most of the time I think popular music now is at the lowest level...
I agree with others, 8/12 cores are too many for following a safe AS. I would only agree to it if a 3Tmultiparametric resonance does not show any sign of significant cancer. Most protocols include...
The standard way to report psa values below the detection limit is including a < sign. However, some people get the raw small figure without the < sign. I am one of them and I observe big...
Johnny Ramone actually died of PCa. I attended to one of their concerts in 1979. I think they have all passed away. Time flies....
This is from Medical Press. Well... actually from a random Google search. _____________________________________________________________________________________ New regulator of prostate cancer...
I agree, with a gap of 20 months your rise cannot be qualified as a sudden jump. Maybe it is prostatitis but you need a close watch....
ADT can be reversed; some new oncological strategists even suggest to alternate it with testosterone adds. Moreover, consider that testosterone is also produced by other organs. Newer third line ADT...