ProstaScint Scan

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Age 59 at diagnosis

You may have seen this site in your research but if not it may be helpful.

www.prostate-cancer.org/education/staging/Kipper_ProstaScintUpdate

UPDATE................I just noticed the link is not available as that link any longer.......if you do a search (in the "search" function) in the PCRI site that comes up when you attempt to go to the above, it will take you to the article (2nd listing) among others about Prostascint. Hope it is of some help.
Bill

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1/05 PSA----2.9 3/06-----3.2 3/07-------4.1 5/07------3.9 All negative DREs
Aged 59 when diagnosed
Biopsy 6/07----4 of 10 cores positive for Adenocarcinoma-------bummer!
Core 1 <5%, core 2----50%, core 3----60%, core 4----50%
Biopsy Pathologist's comment:
Gleason 4+3=7 (80% grade 4) Stage T2c
Neither extracapsular nor perineural invasion is identified
CT scan and Bone scan show no evidence of metastases
Da Vinci RP Aug 10th 2007
Post-op pathology:
Positive for perineural invasion and 1 small focal extension
Negative at surgical margins, negative node and negative vesicle involvement
Some 4+4=8 identified ........upgraded to Gleason 8
PSA Oct 07 <0.1 undetectable
PSA Jan 08 <0.1 undetectable
PSA April 08 <0.1 undetectable

Post Edited (BillyMac) : 6/2/2008 12:39:01 AM (GMT-6)

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Age 59 at diagnosis

My husband had the scan done last month to see if he should have radiation treatment. His PSA had been slowly rising since his surgery in 2001. You first have to have an injection and then they do the scan 4 days later. It took 3 hours for my husbands scan. It also shows if there is possible metastic involvement. On my husbands it did show minor activity in the prostrate bed which is what we suspected but everything else was clear. So he will be starting radiation next month. It was a relief to know it hadn't gone anyplace else. For us it comfirmed the fact that he indeed does need to have radiation treatment. Good luck and we felt it was a valuable test for him to have had done.