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Timeframe from PET scan to start of cancer treatment?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jun 24, 2023 | Replies (13)
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@mwarsha

Thank you for your reassuring words and the article. I wish he was as easy to reassure as I am … he’s a bit more challenging no matter how much information I give him due to the quick cancer death of his mom 😢.

For a little history, his first psa test was in 8/22 at 7.5, then they did the mri which they said came back clean. They suggested a biopsy at that time and he declined (convinced himself he had to be okay if nothing showed up on mri 😐). Next psa was in 2/23 at 8.7, next psa test in 5/23 was 10.3. At that time they did a 4k test and it came back at 80. Biopsy was then scheduled and here we are now 😞.

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edmond1971 | @edmond1971 | Jun 21, 2023

Thank you for sharing and I can empathize with his situation. My mother lost her father (my grandpa) to prostate cancer 40 years ago. From 1st diagnosis to death was 7 months, but that isn't how things work today!

With a PSMA PET coming up, I would encourage self-education to learn about the test itself and the types of tracers, this is a good place to start https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-psma-detect and a key takeaway is that not all PCa responds to PSMA PET. In that article they will refer to sugar tracers, but them do a google search on a very similar test Choline-11 PET scan. At this point you will be much more informed about three tracers that are used for this test, the rationale selected by your health team.

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