if one will go back and read my post i labelled back in december 2004.
i put the heading on it as probably one of the most important posts.  

it was about the rise in psa's after RP's and radiation treatments.  at
what point do they consider them a failed form of treatment.  mine was
05 in december, and i go in tomorrow to get the next one pulled.  it's
been 90 days.  i will see the surgeon next week.

there is just now starting to have input coming in on the small rises in
psa's and what they mean.  

my surgeon has already told me that he is a believer of early
intervention of the rising psa but using radiation as a follow up, but
is going to wait to see what the psa is doing.

i don't know when your surgery was, but the average time of the rise in
psa is 18 months after the RP.  

hope this info helps.

~ 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."
http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc

Yeah, and if it stays at .07 or goes back to .05, you won't.  That's the
problem with ultra-sensitive PSA testing.  Celebrate your anniversary in
June in that you are still "virtually undetectable" at less than 0.1.