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After 5 Years of undetectable PSA's, my PSA is now .128 after 2 Upsa's. This is interesting as my PSA's seemed to always go up slightly after RP but they were all at or below 0.07 (which I was told is undetectable?). 6 Months after my last PSA (0.07), my regular PSA was .1 which now the AUA states that .1 is detectable. So I had 2 separate UPSA's and they came back as .126 and .128. I am choosing Early Salvage Radiation starting on August 24, 2026. I too have read that doing Radiation early (before .2) has been percentages of success than waiting until it gets to .2 up to .5. Also, I think it depends on your surgical report? Mine was good but I had a few risk items that I am not happy with. My physician was not too concerned and now my Rad Onc is not too concern either but I thought it was wise to go Forword. I am 69 Years old and in decent health so I don't want to wait until I'm older and certainly do not want this to metastisize. I'm having 20 days of Radiation and no Hormonal Therapy so hoefully I should weather this fine? Although, you never know!!! Thanks.

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I had a salvage radiation 3 1/2 years after I had I prostatectomy. This was automatically done by my medical providers when my PSA hit .2. I did have a six month Lupron shot Two months before they did them 40 sessions of radiation. You never really did notice that Lupron shot. A couple years later when I had to go on a full-time and it really hit me.

The thing is, if you don’t have the ADT, it may not be able to kill off all of the cancer that gets radiated. You don’t need it for long, but it really does help.

I’ve been on ADT for almost 9 years, Not a big deal. Everybody reacts differently to it. You never know if it’s going to really be a problem for you. A short Time of ADT is not that difficult to get over.