Hoping for good result

Best of luck. Hoping for a no increase for you.

Good luck Ed. If it doesn’t turn out well are considering salvage RT?

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Part I
2015 (Age 54) PSA: 20.8
Bx: All cores high volume G7 (4+3)
RALP & Adjuvant RT
Pathology: G8 (4+4), focal areas of 5; Positive margins; 3 LNs negative
PSA nadir: 0.1
Steady PSA increase. June 2018: 22.3

Part II
2019
Starting Lupron/Zytiga soon.

Yes i'm considering salvage radIaition if my PSA shows an increase. By the way, It was my mistake regarding the last psa, it was .038 NOT .38.

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Age: 67 at Dx on 12/30/08 PSA 3.8
2 cores out of 12 were positive Gleason (4+4)
DaVinci surgery 2/9/09 Gleason 4+4 EPE,
negative Margins, SV clear, nerve bundles removed
Prostate weighed 57 grams 10-20% involved
PSA tests every 3 months undetectable
PSA for the first 7 years <.01
PSA at 8 years .01 (no less than)
02/18/18 PSA .03
5/15/18 retest .029
11/15/18 0.038

you've had a good run I hope it ticks back down.

Roger

YAY!!!

Great news.

With the prostate gone, sex shouldn't affect the result. Same for the antibiotic.

Andrew

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I'll be in the shop.
Age 59, 52 at DX
PSA:
4.2 10/11, 1.9 6/12, 1.2 12/12, 1.0 5/13, .6 11/13,
.7 5/14, .5 10/14, .5 4/15, .3 10/15, .3 4/16, .4 10/16, .4 5/17, .3 10/17 .3 4/18, .4 11/18
G 3+4
Stage T1C
2 out of 14 cores positive
Treatment IGRT - 2/2012

Ed,

Really happy for that excellent report!

As you said, who knows or cares why? But, personally, I would like to know why these jumps and dips occur, esp. to the degree you and I have seen. It's more than normal statistical variation on an admittedly sensitive test. If we only knew more about what was going on, we'd be better positioned to respond. Well, maybe some day.

For now, celebrate!

btw, what did your doc say about frequency of future tests? Every six mths?

Robert

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69 now
Jan '08-'11 PSAs 2.2 2.5 2.7 2.6, DREs-
Jan '12: PSA 3.6, DRE+
Jan '12: MRI inconclusive
Feb '12: PCaDx pT2a, 4/12+ (3 @ 3+3, 1 @ 4+3); 3% tot cores; bone scan-
Apr '12: RALP; 3+4=7; pT2c pN0 pMx; 30%; 3mm r lat margin of 3+3=6 so pT2+; EPE-; PNI+; 8 LN-; SV-
TRT 03/'14-now; uPSAs: <.015 til 02/17; mostly .020-.030; then .048 on 12/1/18

it's hard to know what's going on. But whatever it is, lol, I've got some of it myself. Right when ya think it's doin' one thing, it does another.

It's nothin' to complain about though lol

Good on ya Ed. I'm happy for ya.

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PSA 2010 thru 2014...4.0 +/- .7
Dx 12/14 @ 56 yo...2 cores G6 <5%, 1 core G6 20%, 1 core HGPIN.
RALP 11/25/15...3+4. 3 mm G6 surgical margin, 15% involvement
(5% G4) pT2+ Oncotype Dx score: non-aggressive
PSA's....2/16-.01...4/16-.00...7/16-.00...10/16-.01...1/17-.01
...4/17-.02...7/17-.02...10/17-.02...1/18-.05...3/18-.014...4/18-.02
7/18-.047...10/18-.028...1/19-.014

Thank you for your support. The only other possibility can be is that the lab didn't do the Ultra sensitive PSA but the doctor assured me that it was the UPSA. I repeated the question every time and got the same answer from him. I'll be seeing him next week and will complain to him about the lab they use and the anxiety they put me thru for a year.

let it lie...for goodness sake...

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gleason 9 contained stopped psa testing jan 2015 with two consecutive psa's a year apart at 0.15
surgery 10/09 only treatment...eyes wide open...no sand...gonna live til I die...not the reverse forgive my virtues as well as my sins...

Post Edited (logoslidat) : 2/18/2019 9:16:04 PM (GMT-7)