... In addition to Baptista's key points, knowing the PSA trend will help establish whether a recurrence, should one ever occur, is mild or significant. ... (4 replies)
... Hi medved,
Kcon's post is outstanding, and shs50's post added a real-life example, but I want to comment on the recommendations you got from Johns Hopkins. Ill put it in green in an excerpt from your third post.
Take care,
Jim (15 replies)
... At least you have good family communication on that score, and you have an excellent PSA track record for comparison and trend watching. ... (1 replies)
... known for making the PSA level go up or down, and most of the time the PSA level changes it is not due to prostate cancer! ... (1 replies)
... in other words, the free PSA test became more useful as a tool. ... (2 replies)
... That would leave 2 PSA units to be accounted for to get to 5. But your title notes that your PSA has fluctuated between 4 and 10. ... (4 replies)
... The stability of the PSA at nearly the same value is an encouraging sign. ... (2 replies)
... First, something caused your PSA to jump all the way from .8 to 8.5, and then fall to 3.9 three weeks later. It could have been a test error as the doctor suspected. ... (9 replies)
... I am inclined to wait three months and retake the PSA before doing a biopsy. But i would like to get some opinions from knowledgeable folks here. ... (19 replies)
... could well be accounting for that PSA of 6.4. One favorable criterion for active surveillance for men with diagnosed prostate cancer is a PSA density of 0.15 or lower, and you are well below 0.15. ... (5 replies)
... OR it could be a cause of momentarily flare due to the newer injection administered in April, if the shot was done before drawing blood for the PSA test. ... (13 replies)
... I, and most urologists I've met, think Dr. Walsh has it backwards. PSA is often inflated by a factor of 2 by BPH. Once you get rid of the PSA due to BPH and the PSA due to prostatitis, you're left with the PSA due to prostate cancer. Finasteride improves the diagnostic specificity of PSA, which is otherwise quite poor. ... (8 replies)
... if you've been on it for more than 5 years you should multiply your PSA by 2. ... (8 replies)
... Just received new PSA result today and it has dropped from 13.82 to 9. ... (5 replies)
... You could have PSA tests done separately from those scheduled by his doctor so that you could monitor closely any advancement. Just do not become anxious. ... (52 replies)
... Rest assured that you are not showing a PSA trend that would indicate prostate cancer. Maybe you have some low grade prostatitis, or maybe it's incipient BPH. ... (2 replies)
... Either of those drugs should cut that PSA by about half or a little more, and you can track your new trend from that lower baseline. ... (2 replies)
... Fortunately, this is not the case with pomegranate research. Though the UCLA trial was small, the team was highly respected and the success measure, change in PSA doubling time, was highly measurable and objective. ... (19 replies)
... I believe one of the problems we have is that none of the natural supplements can be patented. Therefore there are no companies out there willing to sponsor a placebo controlled, double blind study using 5,000 subjects. Many times there is a lot of science and smaller studies that support the killing of cancer cells but they are not large enough to attract worldwide attention.... (19 replies)
... The best current test of whether something is working to control prostate cancer for patients with recurrences is the PSA test. For instance, lengthening of the PSA doubling time was the key evidence of effectiveness in the UCLA trial. ... (7 replies)
