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Will PSA ever hit 0 or close to it?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 18 4:47pm | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
@jc76
I think you have the arrow backwards I think you meant to say < .1 not >.1.
I did say the medical community GENERALLY Considers < .1 As undetectable. I did not say they always consider that. I then followed it up by another message discussing other opinions, where some doctors consider < .03 as undetectable.
I’m not sure what you mean by < .10 Since that’s the same as < .1, though I never do include the zero After the < .1
Mayo does tell people that the undetectable PSA is < .1. They don’t just stop at .1. Other people have talked about it, people that are Mayo patients. One of them said they thought Mayo used < .001, But then they came back and said they were wrong and it was < .1.
And then there’s what AI says about it, They used widely instead of generally
After a radical prostatectomy, a PSA level of less than 0.1 ng/mL is widely considered by major institutions and medical professionals to be undetectable or negligible.
This threshold is a common clinical benchmark, as the goal of the surgery is to remove all prostate tissue, the source of PSA production. Different laboratories may report varying lower limits of detection (e.g., < 0.02 ng/mL or < 0.05 ng/mL using ultrasensitive tests), but for practical clinical purposes, anything below 0.1 ng/mL is generally viewed as an absence of detectable PSA.
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@jeffmark
I will not speak or infer I am speaking for medical profession and experts on PC. This goes for test results, diagnosis, treatments. I will limit my post to my personal experiences with PC and what I told by my medical professionals for me specifically and my journey with PC. I will also per MCC guidance try to provide inspirations to others when ever possible.
You posted: "Actually the medical community generally considers < .1 as undetectable." Thus an inference you are providing the medical community.
Then you post you collected more information and posted:
"The threshold for an undetectable PSA level is not universally standardized." And give examples.
It is why I refrain from trying to post or infer speaking for medical industry, medical community, and medical professionals. I will post what my personal experience is and what I am told personally from my medical doctors. If I read something I will bring that information to my medical doctors and discuss that with them. Thus when I post not a medical post but what my doctors tell me for my specific case.
Mayo Jacksonville just opened it's $325 million dollar cancer center. It has many new diagnosis, treatments, etc. that they now offer versus what was available to me back in 2023.
You mentioned you don't post .10 just .1 I post what I am given per my labs. My message on undetectable comes from my personal experience of the numbers given to me and the answer to my question: "How low will m numbers go with my recent .10 results." Answer, You are not going to see numbers below .10 as Mayo Jacksonville considers PSA numbers below .10 as undetectable.
As I mentioned to another poster I am going to check with my PCP next month if Mayo Jacksonville uses a different ultrasensitive test on PSA when it applicable for different type patients.