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Just found prostate cancer. Does it normally go to the bones?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 17, 2023 | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
Have a Bone Scan now. It will tell you. I had my prostate removed 4 months ago, had a Gleason 7, but no bone spread and a CT Scan done that said no spread. My first PSA reading last month showed a .0022 and that is boderline undetectable. 1 in 6 men get prostate cancer and most survive and die old of something else if it has not spread.
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ddun1953, I was Gleason 7 also. Had Decipher, PSMA, bone scan and cancer within prostrate only. My PSA (I did not have hormone treatment) at 3 months was 1.2 (down from 3.75) and my 6 months was 0.79. In my 50s my PSA was every year .75 so almost back to those days.
Statistics just like you stated say that 1 in 6 will be diagnosed with prostrate cancer and most die of something else if not spread. The statistics also show from autopsies that almost all men will develop prostrate cancer if they lived long enough. They don't die from it but when autopsies are done they find the prostrate cancer.
If you still have your prostrate you will have PSA levels. If it is removed then is should approach the undetectable level. So you are right there. I had radiation only and mine is going down to below 1 (6 months was 0.79 where my oncologist/radiologist wants it to be below 1.
Great outcome on your treatment.