← Return to Masturbation post prostatectomy and radiation. Will it affect PSA?

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Original Poster again. So another thought. After radical prostatectomy 12 years ago plus recent salvage radiation still have a PSA due to metastasized cancer cells which they can't locate, but they are there somewhere. If you still have testicles, and not on Androgen Deprivation Therapy, then my thought is masturbation or any sexual activity does release testosterone which "feeds" the hidden cancer cells, which might enhance prostate specific antigen as the cancer cells proliferate. The metastatic cancer cells are somewhere in your body, whether or not you have a prostate gland and as they proliferate or spread your PSA will rise. SO my guess is that because testosterone release with sexual activity "feeds" those cancer your cells that have metastasized your PSA will rise, and probably sexual activity should be stopped or minimized.

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Knoctor, I was just about to post that but you beat me to it! Great masturbating minds think alike…
I’ve read ( and perhaps it’s incorrect) that even sexual arousal increases T; but no one has ever studied T levels before and after sexual activity, so nobody really knows how big the increase is…big enough to stimulate cancer growth in a single event? Big enough to change your PSA by a clinically significant amount? Don’t think so…