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Slight rise in PSA 24 years after radical prostatectomy!
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 26 10:33am | Replies (34)Comment receiving replies
@tuckerp My path report indicated that the cancer had not escaped the margins of the prostate, so it was contained. There was no lymph involvement found. I guess I was considering myself "cured" after 20 years of undetectable PSA. We have to be vigilant about checking on it. And I didn't "double check" the lab results the past two years.... and it seems I may have slipped up. Good luck to you!!
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@domiha There have been a few discussions here about viruses like Covid, which can reactivate dormant cancer cells after decades.
Not to say that they make them more aggressive, but it could be that some of those G3+3 cells were snoozing in the prostate bed all these years and now they’ve awakened.
Interesting that your PSA, stable for so many years chose to rise in the years following Covid. Reflecting back on my own case, my PSA was fairly stable at 0.01 for about 3 years following surgery and then it began to climb during Covid (yes, I got the vax) and really accelerated after getting a nasty 2 week long bout of the virus. Only now can I connect the dots!
Even if you didn’t have the obvious sore throat, cough and body aches most of us experienced, you could have had an asymptomatic case…who knows?
I second the recommendation for getting a PSE test. Best,
Phil