Psa level of a 35 year old 2.4

Hi everyone my dad has prostrate cancer and his doctor advised me to had my psa levels done.
In April this year 2013 my level was 2.0
I then had a re test and the level was 2.1
I was then referred to my hospital to see a consultant he examined my prostate and said he could feel nothing obvious but wanted one more test done in two months time just to be sure. the psa from this test done in July 2013 was 2.4
The consaltent said I would need a scan of my pelvis area in 6weeks time to see if there's anything to be concerned about.
My question is, for my age is a psa level of 2.4 high taking into acount my family history.

Thanks for the advice robertC

The PSA value itself in conjunction with your testosterone level is one metric.

The more important metric would be your doubling rate, how many months it takes that initial 2.0 reading to get to 4.0, or the 2.1 to get to 4.2 or the 2.4 to get to 4.8.

Hopefully you can attribute that 2.4 to too much sex the night before and/or the night before that. Now that you know that is a factor, don't have your PSA tested too often.:}

To early to see a trend but if that 0.4 increase took 3 months, on a straight line basis it would be 15 months to grow the 2.0 difference from 2.0 to 4.0.

Usually doubling rates much smaller in terms of months duration are the most problematic, not the 15's.

However, at your age if that trend were to continue it would ultimately become problematic in terms of high PSA.

With so many variables in PSA outcome, I would think another PSA test (sans sex the 48 hours prior) might be in order before you undergo pelvic scans. or consider having a biopsy, but I am not a medical professional.

Good luck and as our mod PeterDA said, do let us know if we can be of any help on your father's PCa situation.

LupronJim

Paul,

Is your dad computer literate? We'd love to talk to him. We have lots of guys here with rip-roaring cases of metastatic prostate cancer who are keeping the beast at bay. They'd be glad to compare notes with your dad.

Do let us know what they say about your scans. Good luck.

Paul,
Thanks for sharing and sorry you have to be here! Hoping in six weeks, everything is normal. Do let us know how things go. Since I'm new here, I can't offer much help!!

Take care and have a great weekend.

Dave in Bartlett, TN

Thanks grandpaof4 I will let you all know the results of the scan when I have it. Fairwind no I live in the UK
THanks again for all the helpful and kind messages

Right here's an up date of my situation. I've had the results of my MRI scan of pelvis it is showing a grade 3 area in the peripheral zone at base. 4 consultants have looked and can't say if it is cancer or not. So have been advised to undergo template biopsies under GA. I was told by the consultant the grade levels for the scan go from 1 to 5. One being not cancer and five being cancer.

Paul, one thing to note is that Prostate cancer can be heriditary and the key outcome is that the average age of diagnosis of people who is unlucky enough to inherit the wrong genes is 15 years lower than someone without these genes.

My husband falls into this catagory and was diagnosed in his early 50s. At 35 having prostate cancer is improbable but your doctors are right to be careful.

All the best,
An