May Tests

hi all: i'm sort of in a May / November sequence for my 6 month PSA's, so i'll probably be checking in again in a week or 2. i'm six years out from my SRT, and seeing a very slow increase, but rad onc doesn't think it requires any concern just yet. just continuing to watch. we'll see what happens on the next PSA...hopefully no continued increasing...
bob

just got another 0.3 Not really happy about 0.3, but that's what it was 6 months ago, so if it wants to come here and stay here awhile, i'll take it...it's taken 3 years to creep up from 0.0 to 0.1 to 0.2 and two (6 month) results at 0.3; i don't like the upward trend, but it's taking its time, so be it. youall take it easy out there...bob

PSA, Bone Scan, CAT scheduled in two weeks at Sloan-Ketttering. Meet with medical oncologist a week later. Had a nice 2 1/2 year "break" after SRT, but PSA been going up for 18 months now. Prefer to hold off HT etc. as long as prudent, given uncertainty about when is the best time to resume such. Figure when I do, it is more or less forever in one form or another. Not looking forward to SE at all, so if it is even a 50/50 proposition I will opt to let things ride for another six months. I am in no hurry to pay the boat man his coin, but have to balance that against Quality of Life which is great. My wife is good with that. She is the only person I know who likes travel more than I do, so very compatible and fortunate to travel extensively through all this cancer stuff (just back from two months in Europe). Plan to spend next winter in South Africa. Good luck to all.

Age 72
2009 Surgery -- high Gleason 7. Surgery upstate NY.
2011 PSA emerged again rising quickly to .19.
2011 Moved management of my case to Sloan-Kettering in New York City. Sloan pathology upgraded Gleason to an 8.
Winter of 2011-12 HT + SRT
December 2014. PSA emerged again at .08.
June 2015. PSA .11. Bone and CAT scans clean. Recommended follow up colonoscopy and endoscopy also clean.
January 2016. PSA .26 (Oncologist did not like like the rise from .11 in six months. Neither did I.)
No treatment as yet.

Mel, center yourself. Don't go the depression route.

Just checking in the board and with those who were there for me. Don't go the woe is me route. Do something you like and ENJOY it. You're a good guy. Stay strong. Gather your resources!

Lost my < but not worried. Still planning on a va action from Lupron and my oncologist is on board

It keeps getting better. Still have the < and T is improving. I am encouraged.
6 months until next test this time.

Results were received today: Undetectable; <0.1 ng/mL

As expected.

I may have mentioned earlier, but for the last roughly 5-years (I'm roughly 7-years post-op) I get my annual monitoring PSA test at the same time as the blood work for my annual physical with my Internist, then I email my surgeon's PA the result. Physical is tomorrow; I get blood work in advance so we can talk about anything we need to talk about from the results.

I didn't set a calendar reminder for my physical which was in March last year, so my year stretched out to 14 months before I remembered to get tested (and schedule my physical).

First HT blood test was on the 19th
Results are PSA 0.64 and T<0.6