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What's your radiation therapy experience as a pT3b cancer patient?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Nov 14, 2025 | Replies (22)Comment receiving replies
@surftohealth88 Out of curiosity, as another T3a about 11 weeks out from surgery, what would you do if the ultrasensitive showed movement before the level doctors would treat or PSMA would show? That is the question I struggle with. Certainly, you would see it coming but is that just more time to be stressed and miserable? I have my first 3-month PSA coming up. Mayo does not use the ultrasensitive. I am considering doing my self-paid ultrasensitive but I am also enjoying life without being overwhelmed with cancer thoughts (I am a worrier by nature). So right now I am looking at it practically. What would your path be if you saw a low-level movement in psa?
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@dhasper
Yes, ultrasensitive makes us comfortable and our hospital orders ultrasensitive. We did the first test in WalkinLab at 7 weeks and that at 8 we repeated ultrasensitive at the hospital where my husband had RARP to have an official confirmation and both tests came with the same result.
My husband is about less than 9 weeks post op., so we have time to think especially since his ultra sensitive PSA result is favorable.
If it starts changing action will be taken, of course. There is no way that we would wait for PSMA to light up , absolutely not !
IMHO the sooner the rise of PSA after surgery happens , the more probability is that some PC was left in the pelvic floor area or nodes. I am going here by pure logic, I know that there are other theories but I wonder if they stratify patients by time-frame of BCR if there would be then some changes in the statement that "only 30% of cases are in a pelvic floor area ". If BCR happens 15 years later than of course some cells could have traveled far in that period, but in the first 6 mos to a year I am not sure about it 🤷♀️. This is purely my way of thinking - has nothing to do with any study or anything !
Hope I was of some help and wishing you NO BCR in 50 years 🍀🍀🍀🙂