3 year anniversary: PSA remains undetectable

Congratulations, I also am marking my third year this year. So far, other than side effects from ADT, I’m doing well. My PSA is staying steady at .15. I was Stage 1 intermediate Gleason 4+3/7. Received the ADT, 3 shots and 5 blasts of high dose Proton Radiation. My PSA is tested every 6 months by the Oncology team and 2x a year by my PCP. All are happy where I’m at. My biggest issue is that my testosterone is taking its time to come back to normal. Right now it’s around 100.
Once again Congratulations

I had my RARP feb 6th 2020 at age of 68. Every six months PSA. < .01. Contained in the prostate. Dr made me wait 3 years then clean PET scan before Testosterone. I use the cream and stay around 600. Still incontinent. Wear a condom bag during the day. 4 years of no erections or sexual arousal. My wife had cancer. I had my first night time erection at 5 years with a maintenance dose of 5mg tadalafil . I had my first erection at 5.5 years with trimix. Thinking of AUS device. Each day is a blessing.

Congratulations.

Always nice to hear good news.

Best wishes.

That is great news! Some of us get a house cat version of prostate cancer and other get other raging lion or tiger. Mine came out like a raging tiger but after treatment it settled into a house cat. I have stage 4 de novo prostate cancer in the bone. I started at stage 4. It was a shock. I am undetectable and I am at 3.8 years. Right now I am getting 20 radiation cycles to the prostate to clean up any possible dormant cancer cells and hopefully continue long lasting deep remission. I'm very tired. Congrats to you, I am happy you have been so blessed. I pray the same for all us to beat this enemy.

Congratulations, great news. I had prostatectomy 6 mos ago and my gleason is .04 6 months after surgery. Will keep monitoring but encouraged so far....Again congrats to all the guys fighting this enemy!.

Excellent news. Hopefully there's at least another 3 years of undetectable.

@tuckerp Definitely look into an AUS. I had mine done last July & while not perfect, it's made such a difference. Totally worth doing.

Congratulations! Your outcome is what will all seek and hope for, starting with the fact that your prostate cancer was confined to the prostate, and that it therefore did not yield Extraprostatic Extension ("EPE"). I have slowly learned in reading various gentlemen's stories that the biggest factor in how you are treated and what outcome you will have is whether the cancer remained confined within the prostate, without breaking through the surrounding, membranous capsule (EPE), or if in fact it did show EPE. EPE usually will include "surgical margins" meaning that most likely, cancerous tissue was left in your body (future cancer, radiation, hormonal therapy, etc), and invasion into the seminal vesicle(s), and/or into one or more lymph nodes. Glad to read that yours was contained, removed, and that you are 3-years "clean" with non-detectable PSA. We can all only hope for the same, despite our additional pathology. So far, I am 10 months post-op, and have had three PSA levels all < 0.1ng/ml and one ultra sensitive PSA at 0.006 ng/ml. I hope for the same as I move now to PSA testing every six months, and with the fact the I did have EPE, surgical margins, Cribriform glands, and left seminal vesicle invasion (without any tumor or nodule...just cells). "Fingerscrossed"!

What a blessing from God. I'm happy for you and hope you continue to do well.

@wooldridgec
At what point did they decide radiation?
My husband is stage4 as well and all over his body, but now after almost a year on ADT shots and pills and chemo over the summer, the PSMA scan showed great improvement, still a few spots but much better and PSA keeps going down, from almost 300 to now 0.24 I think, not undetectable yet which I doubt it will be unless they do radiation, but so far they haven't mentioned it.

Congrats! 🙂 Excellent news! 🙂