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Will PSA ever hit 0 or close to it?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 18, 2025 | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
@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.
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@jc76
You disagreed with this
You posted: "Actually the medical community generally considers < .1 as undetectable." Thus an inference you are providing the medical community.
The article I referred to later said
The American Urological Association (AUA) and the European Association of Urology (EAU) generally define undetectable PSA as below 0.1 ng/mL post-prostatectomy.
Are you saying that the AUA and EAU are not the medical community? They sure seem to be exactly that. I even included the “generally” reference they used.
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@jc76
A .10 result is not the same as < .10. It’s interesting they add a zero after the one and you’re not getting an ultra sensitive test. I’ve never gotten anything, but one digit after the decimal point.
Did they tell you it was below .10, Not that it was .10. It’s not quite clear from what you’re writing And those results Are not the same. For the last 25 months, my test has come back as < .1. I don’t expect it to last forever, but it’s nice to get a vacation.
The same as an AI search shows that < .1 is widely recognized as undetectable By many institutions, Are you saying people shouldn’t be informed about that? I’ve seen it in documentation from one of the major prostate cancer standard groups. But it’s not OK to tell people? They are also saying effectively that the medical community generally considers < .1 to be undetectable.
It’s an educational thing not a personal point of view.