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Last PSA Number Before Cancer Diagnosis?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 3 11:37am | Replies (94)Comment receiving replies
I was 6.1 ng/ml pre-biopsy. My first PSA 3-months post-op was the desired >0.1 ng/ml ("zero"), but I have several worrisome pathological features that make me a pT3b, and makes me wonder why we are waiting three more months for the next PSA, instead of starting radiation that my urologist mentioned we will "need to talk about."
It is utterly amazing that with a "normal" 2 ng/ml PSA (normal reference range is 0 - 4 ng/ml) that you actually had a Gleason 3+4=7 tumor occupying 20% of the prostate. "HOW" does an MRI miss a tumor occupying 20% of your prostate? Poor radiologist review of your MRI. You were wise to raise that "B.S." flag
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Hello Rlostrp,
I asked my surgeon Dr Ahlering at UCI Medical Center that very question. He said that approximately 8 to 10% of men get MRI invisible PC due to the unusual cellular pattern in their PC. He said it typically goes undetected until it is advanced. Interestingly, the literature states that MRI negative (invisible) PC is typically low grade usually not more than Gleason 6 so not seeing it can be a good thing…except for the 8 to 10% of us!
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Did you mistype this? “PSA 3-months post-op was the desired >0.1 ng/ml ("zero"),”
You are saying it was greater than .1 Did you actually mean it was less than .1? < .1
Could be just a matter of the arrow pointing the wrong way, but if it was pointing to greater than, then it’s not zero and is something you need to monitor closely In future tests.