Dave....check via Google, but I am 99.9% sure that the adrenal glands
produce enough to keep it at 0.02 or so.

Heather

On July 19, Dave inquired:

The lab test report, a copy of which Dave should acquire along with
every other document pertaining to his PCa, probably actually reads
"<0.03 ng/mL." Translation: less than three one-hundredths of a nanogram
per milliliter.

The test equipment is simply unable to measure below a certain level.
Therefore, the labs never report a zero.

Any PSA reading equal to or less than 0.05 ng/mL is considered to be
"undetectable." It's good news, but keep checking periodically.

Regards,

Steve J

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the
result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy,
for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know
neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

--Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"

Welcome Dave, to the club not one of us chose to join!

Your PSA is in your blood.  You had prostate cancer and it generated PSA.
I'm guessing that one month after you had the gland removed, you still had
some left over in your blood.  I don't know why some docs do a 1-month
post-op PSA, but that's in the past.

0.030 is very, very good.  Especially if it was reported as "   < 0.030  "
which means "less than" and also means it is so low, it cannot be detected
using the assay your lab uses.

In other words, VERY GOOD NEWS!!!

Very few people have 0.000 PSA because the prostate is not the only gland
that produces it.  However, some docs and labs report "zero" to their
patients.  In the end, it pretty much means the same thing, though some want
to know the exact amount out to the thousandths of a nanogram.  You should
be ecstatic with 4/100ths of a nanogram (millionth of a gram).

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you stay awhile.