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Anyone “below detection" with an ultra sensitive PSA test?

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A level of 0.-anything is cause for celebration.
It's not the number - it's if the number is increasing each time - and by how much.
Very little is done unless it reaches 0.2
Prostate cancer is one of the slowest-growing cancers, so it can stay at 0.-something for years & is nothing to worry about.

It's the rate of increase (if any) that they look at.
Worry is a waste of imagination.

Very good article here:
https://www.pcfa.org.au/news-media/news/psa-levels-after-treatment-all-you-need-to-know/

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melvinw | @melvinw | 20 hours ago

@peterj116 Yes, I agree 100% with everything you said. I am just curious about the sources of PSA beyond the prostate. Given that, as other folks have noted, there are other sources of PSA, even if what is produced is minuscule, why then even bother with measuring PSA out to three decimal places? I see no clinical value in such high precision data. I would expect a high potential for instrumental/lab error in such fine measurements as well.

Personally, I am quite happy and relived if my PSA remains below 0.1, as is my RO and urologist.

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