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jhhtexas@ieee.org - 19 Jul 2007 19:59 GMT

I have not posted recently, but my latest PSA 3 years after RP is
0.09.

0.1

*
0.08
* *
*
0.06
*
0.04
*
0.02

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6mo 12mo 18mo 24mo
30mo 36mo
months after RP

My Urologist speculates he left some benign prostate tissue which will
continue to generate PSA
at the rates shown ad infinitum. Biopsy showed PCA totally contained
in prostate.

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chasjac too - 19 Jul 2007 12:30 GMT

Hello:

3 years post-op and your numbers are < 0.1; I think that's pretty good!
Congratulations.

As Steve K pointed out, your graph got a little mangled when I read it, so I
was not quite sure of the trend -- if any -- that it showed. It was just
bouncing around below 0.1 with no apparent pattern, right?

--charlie

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6/2006 PSA 5.2
DRE suspicious
7/2006 Biopsy
2 of 10 positive
Gleason 7(3+4)
11/2006 LRP
Clear margins
1/2007 PSA < 0.01
3/2007 PSA < 0.01
6/2007 PSA < 0.01
so far, so good

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Steve Kramer - 19 Jul 2007 22:02 GMT

>I have not posted recently, but my latest PSA 3 years after RP is
> 0.09.
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> 30mo 36mo
> months after RP

As you can see, Jim, it didn't end up very pretty. But, if you're saying
your last four were .08, /06, .04 and .02, that's fantastic!!

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