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Good afternoon! I apologize upfront for the lengthy post. I'm trying to wrap my mind around...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/621710/

Discussion: Post prostatectomy: What do rising PSA levels mean?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 30, 2021

@olanordman, you may also wish to read these related discussions: - Post prostatectomy: What do rising...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/335976/

Discussion: Rising PSA years after radical prostatectomy

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 23, 2021

Hi there @bobpros. I just opened my computer and found your post. So....let me take a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/325350/

Discussion: High PSA three years post op

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 16, 2020

I was 58. Aggressive cancer. 126.5 PSA. On Lupron. Had a prostatectomy, 7 weeks radiation a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/303508/

Discussion: What is the average age of the gentlemen on here?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Mar 26, 2020

@xahnegrey40 - Sorry didn't do entire story on this post. But I have posted previous. PSA...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1508605/

Discussion: Latest PSMA Scan results - Meeting with Oncologist Friday

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 18 7:41am

@dinu Check with your VA insurance and see if they cover second-opinions appointment. We got 3...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1507791/

Discussion: 44yr PSA180 Gleason9 non-metastatic. Surgery or Treatment?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 17 5:36am

@brianjarvis I was having dinner with one of my wife’s best friends and her husband. He...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1506335/

Discussion: Getting PSA results with impossible fluctuation: What's up?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 15 10:59am

As someone who has BRCA2, I would highly recommend you get genetic testing. My father died...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1503954/

Discussion: Salvage surgery or salvage radiation?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 12 11:07am

I was diagnosed with PC last fall with a gleason score of 8 with a significant...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1503481/

Discussion: Hormone therapy patch

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 11 6:58pm

@wert1234 This would happen if there were more metastasis in your body than were found before...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1499900/

Discussion: Postop pathology to ChatGPT & asked about BCR. Anyone done this?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 6 10:50pm

Some of the questions in here were questioning whether salvage radiation was needed at a .2...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1498015/

Discussion: Are castration sensitive prostate cancer patients being over treated?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 4 12:19pm

It depends up on treatments that a PCa patient has had in addition to a prostatectomy...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1491586/

Discussion: What is standard long term follow up to prostate cancer after surgery?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 27 7:38am

I am surprised that your physician ordered the PET Scan in your post-prostatectomy status. I had...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1490463/

Discussion: PSA levels started to rise again but negative PSMA PET

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 25 3:23pm

The standard of care when your PSA rises above .2, after having a prostatectomy, is that...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1489855/

Discussion: BCR, Eligard, and a long trip... what do you think?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 24 12:57pm

I'm 79 y.o. Had a radical Prostatectomy in 1995 followed a year later with salvage radiation....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1489293/

Discussion: Leaking now thirteen years later

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 23 9:06am

@jeffmarc True. Also, I'd guess that many (most?) of the cases where PSA starts rising after...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1488091/

Discussion: PC treatment: Prostatectomy or Proton Beam Therapy

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 21 12:06pm

I keep seeing this same question. While others may have been told different things by their...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1486011/

Discussion: Post prostatectomy

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 18 7:28pm

Your oncologist is correct - since you have had consecutive increases in PSA and are now...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1477672/

Discussion: The right time to start radiation post RP with an increasing PSA?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 8 6:09pm

@gerald01 HI Gerald, I should also tell you that my doc saved the nerve bundle that...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1476921/

Discussion: Open prostatectomy: How was your healing and recovery?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 7 4:42pm

Unfortunately, you are one of those people with a 3+4 that has an aggressive cancer of...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1475932/

Discussion: Confusing PSA results: Is it possible side effects could inflate PSA?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 6 2:17pm

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