3 1/2 years after my prostatectomy, my PSA started rising. When it hit .2 they gave me a 6 month Lupron shot And two months later, gave me salvage radiation.

Salvage radiation is where they radiate the prostate bed where the prostate used to be, the area around it, lymph nodes near it, in an attempt to kill any cancer that has reoccurred. In my case, it lasted for 2 1/2 years before my PSA started rising again. In some cases, it completely eliminates the active cancer and many people have no reoccurrence. I have a genetic problem BRCA2, which prevents my body from correcting DNA errors so the cancer keeps coming back for me. Some people do have a reoccurrence after this at which point they go on ADT like I did.