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3 negative PSMA PET scans with PSA doubling every 4 weeks
Prostatectomy 10 years ago, Gleason 4-3 with 1/3 bladder positive. PSA going up after 1 year then 39 radiation followed by Lupron then Eligard. Took...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 25, 2025
PSMA PET scan found cancer in rib and #3 vertebrae. Any experience?
I recently had my 2nd BCR after 11 years post Prostatectomy from Gleason 9 in 2013 when I was 53. Had 1st BCR Nov 21,...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Nov 7, 2025
Has anyone gotten or heard of the new treatment LU-PSMA-617?
Has anyone gotten or heard of the new treatment LU-PSMA-617? When will this be readily be available? What is the long term outcome ? Thank...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 16, 2023
Next step after PSMA scan shows one metastatic site?
76 year old man treated 22 years ago with radiation by seed implants and 7 weeks of EBRT. Undetectable and very low level PSA for...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 15 3:13pm
How many PSMA/PET scans Medicare will cover, in a year?
I am on Medicare with local metastatic PC, have had one PSMA/PET 2-months ago now will have pelvic lymph node EBRT. Was curious to know...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 30, 2025
How long it takes to get PSMA/CT results back ?
We had PSMA/CT last Tuesday and still nobody called or e-maild about findings. I am wondering if that is normal to wait so long for...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 18, 2025
PSA levels started to rise again but negative PSMA PET
After radical prostatectomy my PSA levels started to rise. At PSA 0.5 I had a PSMA PET CT which showed no radiotacer-avid disease. At PSA...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 27 1:23pm
Pirads 3, going for PSMA PET scan instead of biopsy
I recently had a prostate 3T Multiparametric MRI at Mayo Clinic, the result is Pyrads 3. After looking at several videos on the Prostate Cancer...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 18, 2024
Biochemical Recurrence: Questions about PSMA PET scan & radiation
After robotic RP in April 2019 PSA pre op 7.5 Gleason (4+5) pT3a evidence of perineural invasion , clear margins no additional treatment after RP...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 26, 2022
How long after radiation treatment did you repeat the PSMA/PET?
How long after radiation treatment did you repeat the PSMA/PET? Does anyone know how long to wait for the PET after ADT?Thanks
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 9, 2024
PSA above 0.2 after RP in 2020 but psma pet scan is negative
RP in 2020. All went well then a couple years later PSA starts rising (about 2.7 years ago) and went above 0.2. Had psma scan...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Oct 28, 2025
Is a PSMA-PET scan of value if you have already started ADT treatment?
An acquaintance had a RP in mid July and while the pathology report had some positives his Gleason score increased from a 7 to an...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Oct 10, 2024
Anyone had the same? PC - Micrometastatic recurrence | PSMA PET neg
Just had a detectable PSA rise to 0.09 after been undetectable for 1.5 years after surgery & IMRT + ADT (46 year old). PSMA PET...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Nov 28, 2025
PSMA Pet Scan 1 week after biopsy, is that too soon?
Is it too soon to have a PSMA PET Scan 1 week after biopsy or how long would be good to wait? Biopsy was Gleason...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 29, 2025
How long after biochemical failure for positive PSMA PET scan?
Robotic radical prostatectomy April 2015. PSA: .1 Jan. 2023; .44 Nov. 2024 and .5 March 2025 (from a different lab so not sure if this...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 27, 2025
What do you do when one lymph node on PSMA is inconclusive ?
We got PSMA results with clear uptake in right lobe of prostate which was expected but one lymph node on the left side in iliac...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 28, 2025
Does Mayo do PSMA pet scans, and offer proton beam radiation?
I had robotic RP performed almost 4 weeks ago - pathology determined invasion in both seminal vesicles plus one lymph node. Recommended for ADT plus...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 3, 2023
Biochemical Relapse After Lu-177 PSMA — Options for Bone-only mCRPC
My father is 82 and was diagnosed in December 2021 with advanced prostate cancer. MRI at diagnosis showed a PIRADS 5 prostate lesion with pelvic...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 10 8:52pm
PET/PSMA / Decipher test results back (0.69). Radiation/hormone now.
Well. Was diagnosed with PC back in Oct of last year (53 year old). My numbers are/were Gleason 7, Stage 2, PSA 8.8, so intermediate...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 13, 2024
Why does PSMA Pet Scan show no evidence of mets? Missing something?
-PSA of 7.-MRI May/2025 PI-RADS 5, suspicious for extraprostatic tumor extension, suggesting neurovascular bundle involvement. No lymphadenopathy.-Biopsy June/2025 - Right posterior medial Gleason 3+4, grade...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 3 5:12pm