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Just met my MO for the 1st time. She ordered another PSMA PET scan which I...

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Discussion: 1st PSA test seven weeks after surgery

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 16, 2025

After my prostatectomy small lung nodules (only) appeared on CT scan. They were too small to...

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Discussion: CT scan found tiny pulmonary nodules

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: 3 days ago

@thmssllvn he’d go to UCSD or UCSF for the PSMA PET, because we are presuming their...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1497085/

Discussion: PSMA PET CT question

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 3 9:43am

The lung nodules are so small and flat that they don't think they could biopsy them....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/913692/

Discussion: Prostrate cancer in lungs that are subcentimeter in size?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 15, 2023

You have every reason to be hopeful. Keep watching the PSA every few months. If it...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/843852/

Discussion: Rising PSA years after radical prostatectomy

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 16, 2023

@restlessandwild I'm so sorry to hear this - I hope it's manageable. What were your particulars...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1465442/

Discussion: What side effects did you experience after salvage radiation?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Dec 21, 2025

@jeff1963 An MRI is not the best way to find cancer spread. The PSMA pet scan...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1435324/

Discussion: PSA/MRI not too bad, Biopsy not too good. What?? [updated]

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Nov 10, 2025

Yes, a biomarker (genomic) test (like Decipher) and a 2nd opinion on the biopsy slides are...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1296847/

Discussion: What side effects, if any, did you have with Cyberknife?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: May 4, 2025

I had a talk with my oncologist (also in Ontario) about this yesterday at our quarterly...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1282310/

Discussion: The arbitrary economics of life and death

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 15, 2025

My husband is on Original Medicare and Dr. Kwon generally orders a PSMA PET scan for...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1356084/

Discussion: How many PSMA/PET scans Medicare will cover, in a year?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 25, 2025

A PSA of 1 after surgery is high. Your PSMA-PET scan showed the location of the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/943588/

Discussion: Rising PSA years after radical prostatectomy

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 7, 2023

The protocol is now the PSMA PET scan, which includes a CT. From what I understand,...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/918403/

Discussion: Decipher 0.61 Interpretation: Will this change treatment?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 24, 2023

Thanks Kevin. We are using trends. Took 8 months to go from.06 to .5 did PSMA...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/901792/

Discussion: Biochemical rerrurrence after SRT

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 25, 2023

Many thanx …. Yes Gle 4+4, PSMA … pathology confined to prostate and one tiny external...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1382454/

Discussion: Newly dx ….. starting down the path to treatment

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 30, 2025

One other scan that works well to see cancer that doesn’t produce PSMA Is the FDG...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1357707/

Discussion: Salvage radiation decision: with or without hormone therapy?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 27, 2025

@thematrix, it is scary. But you are actually in pretty good shape. @jeffmarc says it all....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1188813/

Discussion: Newly diagnosed: How painful it is to have catheter in place?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Dec 11, 2024

The standard of care is triplet, which means ADT plus another hormone plus chemo and or...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1172527/

Discussion: Stage 4 Prostate Cancer and Hormone Therapy quit working

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Nov 12, 2024

Agree with all other comments. MRI will tell the doctor where to biopsy. Or if you...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/951127/

Discussion: Continue PSA surveillance or have a Prostate MRI?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 20, 2023

For what it’s worth…my insurance refused the choline 11 PSMA PET scan. However, I was successful...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/896947/

Discussion: Has anyone had PC that is very aggressive and a very low low PSA?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jul 16, 2023

Yes, twice a year until 2020, when it started going up. It stayed just under .20...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/781128/

Discussion: Has anyone had the PSMA-PET scan? Was cancer found?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Dec 5, 2022

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