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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / May 2004Had a PSA today.......
Although my Doc recommended a PSA at 90 days post-op (had Robotic LRP 3/26/04), I was driving myself crazy thinking about it ....plus am considering having a second opinion of the post-op path report. As the PSA test is now taken at approx. 7.5 weeks, how much inprovement might I expect. Would I be overly optimistic to expect a VERY low score, or would the PSA decline over a longer period of time. BTW, my pre-op PSA was 6.7 jh Would I be overly optimistic to expect a VERY low score, -------------------------- hi jh - to give you some a clue. my pre-op psa with 6.35 i had my RP done on 4-15-03 and i had an appt on 5-30-03 at which time, they pulled blood and did a psa on me. it's was already at <.04. hope yours is undetectable too. ~ curtis knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional "Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so." > Would I be overly optimistic to expect a VERY low score, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > i had my RP done on 4-15-03 and i had an appt on 5-30-03 at which time, > they pulled blood and did a psa on me. it's was already at <.04. Yes, I should add, my 10/17/2000 PSA was 16. My RRP was 12/15/2000. My March 2001 PSA was < 0.1 and I found out later that I did have leftover cancer. >Subject: Had a PSA today....... >From: "jhlms" jhlms@sbcglobal.net [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >jh PSA in serum has a half-life of about 2.5 to 3.0 Days, so that is 17 to 20 half-lives, which would bring it down to about 0.00001 if nothing else were producing PSA- but there is something else. Expect a "< 0.1" at least, I would say. Unless cutting the prostate releases loads of PSA into the blood... After LRP, if LRP was the correct treatment, it should be <0.1. The whole purpose of and RP is to get the cancer out of your body. So, if it didn't already escape, you have no cancer left (notwithstanding Vernon's argument which makes a lot of sense).  SignatureProstate Cancer Survivor (so far), not a doctor PSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Erection 05/12/2003 @ 48 HTbegins 07/21/2003 @ 48 PSA .07 .05 Lupron 7/03, 8/03, 12/03, 4/04 > Although my Doc recommended a PSA at 90 days post-op (had Robotic LRP > 3/26/04), I was driving myself crazy thinking about it ....plus am [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > jh I'll cross my fingers for you!! Bev > Although my Doc recommended a PSA at 90 days post-op (had Robotic LRP > 3/26/04), I was driving myself crazy thinking about it ....plus am [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > jh I so love my husband and I just pray to God this comes out ok......and I thank you for you support ....will know Monday.....appointment is at 3:45.....please keep your fingers crossed and pray to whatever higher power you believe in. It seems like this doesn't end, and that's what I'm beginning to learn.....I was so naive to think that it ends after LRP....hopefully it will, but I know it doesn't for lots of folks or it does temporarily and then rears its ugly head. Well I just thank you all very much for your support. Sandy > Although my Doc recommended a PSA at 90 days post-op (had Robotic LRP > 3/26/04), I was driving myself crazy thinking about it ....plus am [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > jh You are *both* in my prayers, Sandy.... I have found over the past two years that the *waiting* is the worst part of all of this! I have to have another PSA test in June.... and I'm already dreading it. :-( Please keep us posted! MikeH > I so love my husband and I just pray to God this comes out ok......and I > thank you for you support ....will know Monday.....appointment is at [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Sandy Sandy, It probably will do no good, but I will try anyway. You almost certainly have nothing to worry about. His PSA was 10 below mine. His Gleason was the same as mine. He had a better procedure than I did (IMPO). There is no reason why Monday should turn out anything other than "less than 0.1". That said, yes, you are in it for the long haul. The only good news is no news. No recurrence. No rise in PSA. And if you get those results quarter after quarter, year after year, you will never be sure, at least not until your 38th anniversary. If I were you, I'd plan something special for that one. SignatureProstate Cancer Survivor (so far), not a doctor PSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Erection 05/12/2003 @ 48 HTbegins 07/21/2003 @ 48 PSA .07 .05 Lupron 7/03, 8/03, 12/03, 4/04 > I so love my husband and I just pray to God this comes out ok......and I > thank you for you support ....will know Monday.....appointment is at [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > jh |
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