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PSA detectable 18 mos after prostatectomy

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 21 9:42am | Replies (50)
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@heavyphil

Well good for you! If you are a risk taker and content with the way things are going then keep at it.
You didn’t mention your PSA velocity; how long after your ADT/ radiation did it take to get to 5.25?
Perhaps if it has taken many years, you might finally see something on a scan when you’re 90!😁

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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | Oct 20 4:06pm

Just so — I don't want to judge someone else's choices either. If I'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer around age 64 and had had all the treatments then (radiation, ADT, etc) and then made it to 80 before my PSA started rising, I might also decide to wait and see before subjecting myself to ADT all over again.

Or maybe I wouldn't. I don't know. They initially told me I had no chance of even making it to age 70 (65, maybe), and while they're not saying that any more because my treatments have been so effective, if I have the incredible privilege of living to 80 I might be very proactive about heading it off. I turn 60 this fall; ask me again in 20 years.

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