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My first PSA test after surgery
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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.
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While it may be true that they were limited in what they can show in a PSA test I’ve never heard of a two digit PSA not being ultra sensitive. They don’t need to put a zero after the eight.
Normal PSA tests that are not ultrasensitive only have one digit, when you have two digits It’s a lab That does ultra sensitive.