For several months on ADT after IMRT, I've had low PSA results, including 0.01 for each of the last three months.
On 4/16, I had another of my monthly PSA tests. The reported result was 4.81, 480 times my last test. My med onc wanted to start Casodex 50 mg qd, followed by chemo, ...

Got a card from my doctor with the results of my first PSA test post RP.
According to the results the reading is 0.06.  Everything I've read said
it should be something like  <0.02 but it's slightly higher than that.
The test was taken only 26 days post surgery so I don't know if ...

My story:
Age 56. Brachytherapy 16 days ago. Almost no side effects at all. I am very
surprised. Normal urination (maybe a little more frequent). No catheter.
Erection and ejaculation (bloody - sorry to the squeamish) - similar to

When I was diagnosed pc two months ago I had virtually no
understanding about prostate, prostatecancer, treatment or side
effects whatsoever.
Nor have I ever had any problems with my erection and my libido has

I am 65 with a Gleason 7 prostate cancer facing LRP soon. Looking
through my records I find my PCP diagnosed BPH on a DRE in 1999. PSA
showed an elevated level but he didn't indicate the reading.
Subsequent exams indicated BPH and elevated PSA and finally in mid 2003

Thanks for the advice on my earlier post.
As I was studying for tomorrow's PSA test as Alan suggested :-), I
thought of these 2 questions:
From Walsh's book...the PSA half life is about 2-3 days...so wouldn't

I was reading the book "Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery" by
Dr. Bradley Hennenfent and he tells of this case study of a guy who
got his PSA from a high of 122 down to 1 in a couple of months by
taking PC SPES several times a day.

Update: Just to let you know:
My Uro consultation with Dr Tom Shannon will be done @ SCGH, June 30
and will be free :)
My HDR Brachytherapy will be done during my hospitalisation July 11 to

hi folks - i ran across this article and thought to myself - here we
are......our lives get shattered by cancer, or our loved ones develop a
different type of cancer.  we are trying to make the best to survive
these cancers and put our lives back together and yet, there are those

Found a lump yesterday just above the public hair on the left side.  I had a
hernia repaired on that side about five years ago, but that was in a
different location, much lower, down by the testicles.  Will call the
doctor's office today to see what they say.  Probably just another

G'day Gents
I'm not a regular contributor to this news group but I do regularly read the
contents.
Any way I thought I would share this chain of events with you all.

Posted on Thu, Apr. 21, 2005
Prostate cancer gene may be from mother
By Marilynn Marchione
The Associated Press

Hi, I'm not a doctor, but I've been lurking and wanted to reply to a
post, but I can't figure out how to do it. Google doesn't seem to have
the reply to group button working. Anyway, I am replying to this:
Hi Dr. Hennenfent...In the study I am aware of ("A

LIVING WILL DECLARATION
I, ____________________________, being of sound mind and body, do not wish
to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means.
Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of peckerwood

Hi everyone.I posted a few weeks ago.I'm the one with a child on the way.
I'm 40 years old with a PSA of 0.6 and lots of symptoms. My DRE and
T.R.U.S was abnormal with stones and I had a nodular. I had a biopsy with
12 snips and they all came back normal. Doc says I have chronic