Jon,
It may be my ignorance on the terms, but I don't understand how one can have a positive margin yet no extraprostatic extension - maybe someone can clarify this. If you truly have no cancer exposed on the surgical specimen removed, statistically your odds are very good of no recurrence. In other words, aggressive adjuvant treatment should be in part a function of the pathology report, I would think. As others have said, this needs to be monitored carefully. However, if the margin is truly negative, I would hesitate before opting for radiation until the 0.2-0.4 level.
CaPCa
Age:45 (44 when diagnosed)
Father diagnosed and cured at age 52.
08/21/07: Diagnosed with T1c cancer
1 of 12 biopsy cores positive; 10% tissue
Gleason score: 3+3=6
PSA level prior to biopsy: 4.3 (velocity < 0.4ng/ml)
10/19/07: da Vinci prostatectomy by Dr. Vipul Patel
Difficult surgery due to prostate inflammation.
Both nerve bundles spared.
Spongy erections began within 24hrs of surgery!
10/24/07: Catheter out; down to 1 Serenity pad/day next day.
Final pathology: neg margins, no capsular penetration,
Gleason 3+3=6, 5% tumor involvement, multi-focal.
11/04/07 First usable erection with Cialis
11/22/07 Thanksgiving - Bye-bye, pads
01/17/08 First post-surgery PSA result: < 0.008 ng/ml
03/17/08 Erection quality mostly back to pre-surgery levels with Cialis;
have not tried without meds yet.
04/23/08 Second post-surgery PSA result: < 0.008 ng/ml
07/30/08 Third PSA: 0.01 ng/ml
11/04/08 One year PSA: 0.01
Still taking 10mg Cialis every other day - enjoying the results
too much to stop yet.
02/07/09 Taking 5mg Cialis every other day - having too much fun to try
to stop for now.
03/23/09 PSA: 0.02