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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
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.
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I always found it confusing what the doctors call undetectable. At first y doctor said < 0.01 is undetectable. Later it was any PSA value < 0.100. My understanding is that when the prostate is removed or radiation is given to the prostate the docs like to see a PSA near or < 0.01. If you have a prostate undetectable is anything < 0.100. I'm assuming it is because one might still have a prostate that can create normal (not diseased PSA). I still have my prostate and I am stage 4 do novo - cancer in the bones only. My PSA is < 0.100 and has continued dropping even after completion of chemotherapy.
I agree. Great outcome to your treatment.