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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / September 2007Post Prostatectomy PSA/Digital
Curious as to what schedule others have been put on for PSA/Digital exam post prostatectomy. Mine is: 1st year every 3 months 2nd year every 6 months 3rd year and beyond 1X a year > Curious as to what schedule others have been put on for PSA/Digital > exam post prostatectomy. Mine is: > > 1st year every 3 months > 2nd year every 6 months > 3rd year and beyond 1X a year Years 1-3: Every 3 months Years 4 & 5: Every 6 months Then every year > Curious as to what schedule others have been put on for PSA/Digital > exam post prostatectomy. Mine is: > > 1st year every 3 months > 2nd year every 6 months > 3rd year and beyond 1X a year Years 1-3 every three months Years 3-5 every six months Years 5+ every year  SignatureJerryW Please respond to group; email address is not valid 2/11/04 PSA 2.6, Suspicious DRE (age 62) 2/23/04 Biopsy: Gleason 3+4=7, T2a, left lobe 5/18/04 RRP, Path: Gleason 4+3=7, T2c, both lobes Fully continent by 9/04 PSA through 4/2/07: <0.1 > Curious as to what schedule others have been put on for PSA/Digital > exam post prostatectomy. Mine is: > > 1st year every 3 months > 2nd year every 6 months > 3rd year and beyond 1X a year Mine was; 1st year, every 3 months. 2nd year, every 3 months. 3rd year, every 6 months. 4th year, every 6 months. 5th year and every year after, annually. Sadly, as you will see in my signature, I didn't come near to meeting my schedule before the bastard bit me again. SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA <.1 <.1 <.1 .27 .37 .75 PSAD 0.19 years EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 PSAD .056 years Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 and every 4 months there after PSA .07 .05 .06 .09 .08 .132 .145 PSAD 1.4 years Casodex added daily 07/06 PSA <0.04, <0.05, <0.04 (06/12/2007) Non Illegitimi Carborundum > Curious as to what schedule others have been put on for PSA/Digital > exam post prostatectomy. Mine is: > > 1st year every 3 months > 2nd year every 6 months > 3rd year and beyond 1X a year I think that's what my uro has planned. But he hasn't done a DRE yet -- I suppose he would if my PSAs start rising. But in that case, we'd probably throw the schedule out and test more frequently anyway. --charlie Signature6/2006 PSA 5.2, DRE suspicious 7/2006 Biopsy: 2 of 10 positive, Gleason 7(3+4) 11/2006 LRP: Clear margins PSA < 0.01 on 1/2007, 3/2007, 6/2007 so far, so good ... >> Curious as to what schedule others have been put on for PSA/Digital >> exam post prostatectomy. Mine is: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >--charlie My Uro does a DRE. I was told they have had a few cases where cancer reemerged before the PSA rose. It has me wondering. I'm almost 3 years post-op and still getting PSA checks every 3 months, but then mine was Gleason 8 w/seminal vesicle involvement and my PSA velocity pre-op was > 2.0, so mine is fairly likely to return some day and kill me. I.P. >Curious as to what schedule others have been put on for PSA/Digital >exam post prostatectomy. Mine is: > >1st year every 3 months >2nd year every 6 months >3rd year and beyond 1X a year Same here. SignaturePSA @ 45 yrs. = 4.7 02/06/2007 Biopsy 03/16/2007 G7(3+4),T1c RLRP 06/12/2007 G7(3+4),T2cN0M0 Neg margins PSA 7/16/2007 = <0.1 PSA 9/12/2007 = <0.1 |
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