PSA BACK UP 2/12 YEARS POST OP FOLLOW UP

Wanted to get back to everyone on what happened at visit with oncologist today. Cathy and I went back to Yale and met with Petrylak and got some good news for the time being. His thought and recommendation is to wait on ADT , and the option of any scans at this time, reasons being its possible that even though the salvage radiation treatment of the prostate bed failed to lower the psa it is possible that it has plateaued at 1.2. Also the option of a scan most likely would not show anything. He wants to retest psa in 6 weeks. he sees no benefit to starting ADT at this time. Our understanding is that he waits until the psa reaches 4-5 to begin therapy. I did the math and had the psa doubling every 3 months (from .6 in No. to 1.2 now) he used all the tests from Aug when it started to rise (.49) to now and had it doubling at 5 1/2- 6 months. Guess there is a reason why he is the doc. One more thing, I don't think I mentioned this before but I am in the Automotive field (automatic transmissions) and have been for 40 years, wonder how many other men with prostate cancer are in this field. I know 8 men who have prostate cancer and three of them are in the auto field

Sounds like your Doc has a plan in mind. Good luck!
Also, I am around machines and metals (copper/brass) but more in management and don't get hands as dirty these days. Have two brothers in the business with me who have PC and two of our foreman have PC with one of them dying from it. We talk about the possible connections in the air, water, environment... but in reality, its a very common disease and as males age we get some type of prostate problems. Hundreds of other machinists have been through the building and I have not heard of problems... but don't track them either. -Ken