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Anyone had salvage radiation therapy post-prostatectomy?
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Had total prostatectomy in 2015- PSA < .015. 2yrs later PSA had risen to .034. Had SRT. PSA dropped to .021 and then continued to increase over the years and reached .02 by 2025. Looking at PET scan and whatever that reveals. My urologist and radiologist cannot offer an explanation other than to tell me that this will not kill me. The surgeon said that everything went fine and I should be fine. 2yrs later the radiologist told me that he would wipe out any remaining cancer cells, yet here we are.
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Your PSA is too low for a PSMA PET scan to be useful, It won’t find anything. Your PSA should be at least .5 before you consider A PET scan, though a doctor may go a little lower.
A .02 PET scan is really undetectable and not an issue you should worry about yet.
I had surgery 3 1/2 years later my PSA started rising. I had salvage radiation. 2 1/2 years later my PSA started rising above .2, At that point, they put me on Lupron (ADT). You are not even close to that so you really need to wait for future tests to show if you really have a PSA increase.