← Return to Slight rise in PSA 24 years after radical prostatectomy!

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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

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@heavyphil Something I had not considered. Got the first vax in January of 2021. Then, at Christmas 2021 got Covid, with the terrible sore throat like swallowing glass. Lasted about a week. Thanks for bringing this up. One more thing to add to my list of questions for the doc.
Best wishes!
Mike