Hi Jeff, before the cancer the testosterone injections took me within the normal range for men my age. I was off the T for three months and suffered from the symptoms of low T.

I just started back, and the Doc is expecting the PSA to rise some. But this alone is not an indication that the cancer is accelerating. Even without prostate cancer, I am told that testosterone injections cause PSA to rise some. I asked him if any of his patients on this regimen have seen an acceleration, and he told me that it is not statistically significant. The prevailing school of thought is that testosterone is to prostate cancer as gasoline is to fire, based on a study in the 1940's. However their are emerging studies that are showing this is not necessarily the case. He is one of the few Urologists that do this and he has had good success. Most urologists stop testosterone, or prescribe medicine that lowers testosterone levels when prostate cancer is detected. There are men who are ok with low T, and there are others who suffer more severe symptoms. Pretty much only places that will prescribe T for men with hypogonadism and early stage cancer are at these cancer researcher centers.