@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 🍀🍀🍀🙂
@surftohealth88 Yes, the logic of your last paragraph is compelling. After I wrote, I thought ultra-sensitive also would provide good information on doubling time, although I suppose you could extrapolate backwards to the date of surgery for a very rough estimate. Right now, the plan is that I need to make an appointment if it ever shows a result of 0.1 or greater. I dont know what the plan as I still would be in the zone where nothing would likely show on psma.. I sure would want slavage at that point, though.