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Slight PSA rise 9 months after radiation.
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 28 12:13pm | Replies (55)Comment receiving replies
Have you had radiation? How long ago. Not quite sure the numbers you wrote down make sense.
You went from 1 to 2 to 22 to 54 to 21?
After radiation if you have three rises in your PSA, you should be looking for further diagnosis and possibly treatment. if your PSA is going that high, you really should see your oncologist. It’s way more than doubling.
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I'm 65 - (And you may want to really read this comment)
My PSA was like 8.42, then 11+ then 15+....3 years ago, now its 20
Before I went to the urologist, I bought a book called "The great Prostate Hoax"
The author is the doctor who came up with the PSA test, and cited that the PSA (alone) was never intended to be the Gold standard to determine if someone has cancer....but rather in his words "Taken over by the CDC" -
After reading most of the book when The doctor told me I needed a biopsy on my prostate...
I said, I'll think about it BUT before I do, I have a question....
Q1) Have ever had a patient with a high PSA, but NO cancer? - He said Yes! We see it in motor cycle riders all the time....
Q2 ) Have you ever seen ppl with a NORMAL PSA but with cancer....? He said yes
Well, in that case, I'm not going to worry about it unless I have problems.... Most men will die WITH Prostate cancer, than from it....
So never been back
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@narus wrote "My PSA goes up but sometimes goes down.
.1,.2,.22,.54,21"
@jeffmarc wrote "You went from 1 to 2 to 22 to 54 to 21?"
Except for the last number, there's a decimal point before each number in @narus's comment, which can be hard to see next to the comma (I assume he left it off the last one by accident). So read
"My PSA goes up but sometimes goes down.
0.1, 0.2, 0.22, 0.54, 0.21"