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Yes, AI can be used as a "tool" and as valid information that can be used as talking point for future discussions with your doctor.

As you saw at the end, every case is different and even you with all those "bad" feature so far had great results.

There is just no way that one can predict with 100% certainty what will happen or not happen in the future. There are patients who have low gleason and negative margins who have BCR in 2 years and patients with high gleason and EPE and "all that jazz" and do not have BCR in 7 years or more so one really has to take one day at a time and just take all of the precautions to discover BCR early and treat it early for the best possible results.

My husband is high risk patient and we decided to have PSA tested every month for the first 6 mos. even though our doctors do not think it is necessary. We go to WalkInLab and results are the same as are in the hospital where he had RP. His hospital measured PSA as undetectable if it is less than 0.014. Since he is high risk his MO suggested paying attention if PSA ever reaches 0.05 and than doing treatment at PSA 0.1 and he was opposed (as was a surgeon) to adjuvant radiation therapy in our case. We intend to follow his advice.

Wishing you forever 0.006 PSA !!!

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@surftohealth88 you make great points about taking it one day at a time. Thanks! Honestly though I don’t know if every month PSA tests are necessary but every 12 weeks is my guidance from my urology oncologist at Johns Hopkins. I will keep that regimen for the next 3-4 years. And your thoughts On when to take action is spot on too - I don’t plan to wait to the textbook defined 0.2 BCR. If I have three consecutive climbs and/or it ever reaches 0.1 I’m jumping on salvage treatment - there is no reason to wait if it’s confirmed after being non detect. Hopefully we all can manage to escape BCR indefinitely!