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My first PSA test after surgery
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@mpersonne
Some doctors want the PSA to be .01 After surgery, A little higher is OK. You had your test plenty of weeks after. Hopefully your PSA stays down. The thing that concerns me is just adding .02 to your current PSA would make it <.1. And if that happened, it would probably not take long to become greater than .1.
It could be your next PSA goes down more. We’re all getting tested and waiting.
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@jeffmarc It looks to me that the assay that was being used only has a <0.08 sensitivity.
@mpersonne You may want to look at ultrasensitive assays moving forward. I do with <0.02 sensitivity. There are even tests with higher sensitivity, but they have a risk of falsely detecting small positive amounts of PSA and thus creating unnecessary anxiety.