First PSA results post op

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Posted 12 Sep 2020 at 08:51

A steady rise followed by a plateau might be down to 'healthy' prostate cells left behind multiplying and / or the body finding its own 'normal', but the plateau is expected to be at less than 0.1.

A steady rise that keeps rising is either prostate cancer cells left behind in the prostate bed multiplying (biochemical recurrence), metastases, or (in the case of men who have brachy / focal treatments) a new prostate cancer in a different part of the prostate.

Rarely, rising PSA may indicate a completely different problem - breast cancer, thyroid and adrenal problems can all affect PSA I think.

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Posted 12 Sep 2020 at 08:55

Schulze1862 I noticed you were a G6 at final pathology the same as I was, I too have had gradual increase at supersensitive levels, I think I saw someone else on here too in the same situation.

Might be worth asking for a second opinion on the pathology because if it really was only G6 it is means the risk of any increase at SS levels is significantly less.

Non of this means you can ignore it but maybe you can breath s little easier.

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Posted 08 Nov 2020 at 11:22

《Response to a post which has now been deleted》

Did you read our responses above? Was this test done at the same lab as the previous ones?

You don't technically have a recurrence until you have two more rises after this one so while you can ask for an oncology referral, there will be no rush to treatment. Probably just as well with the COVID situation.

The gentle steady rise combined with your pathology indicates cells in the prostate bed rather than far flung mets. Once you are seen by oncology, you will probably be offered HT to start quite quickly, with RT 3 or 6 months later. After this year, and now probably a long winter of further lockdown and restrictions, you might decide that you want a couple of nice holidays etc before being restricted again by the RT?

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Posted 08 Nov 2020 at 15:32

A discussion about psa tests is always interesting but this was restarted by someone called Alex who replied to a 1 year old post and then it continued with someone called Schulze who seems to have deleted their post unless they changed their name.

As long as I've been on this forum the discussions about psa haven't changed one iota, which is apparently an extremely small amount. Time a new way to test was introduced. A home testing kit with accuracy down to 0.03 +/- 0.005 from a fingerprick test would be useful.

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Posted 08 Nov 2020 at 18:12

That's weird - Schulze has deleted all previous posts.

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Posted 08 Nov 2020 at 21:39

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That's weird - Schulze has deleted all previous posts.

Yeah I noticed that last night. Made a mess of the thread and left a lot of orphaned replies. 😡

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Posted 08 Nov 2020 at 21:42

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No. I do not practice thread necromancy, unless relevant.

I replied to a comment/question by someone else. Most likely it was Schulze, who has subsequently deleted all their posts in this thread. 😡Now I wish I had quoted it.

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