Thanks Duck2: Good point. It is a favourable population. Their parameters are quite like mine so I find it more interesting than some people might. Also I think a major purpose of the study was to...
Thanks jmadrid: Good point about the >2 being a higher criterion than in most other studies: "The analysis here is on progression. Their biochemical definition of progression is >2 from nadir....
Hi guys: I previously posted about this a few weeks ago, but at the time did not have the data. If you are seeing recurrence after prostatectomy I think you would benefit from reading the following:...
CORRECTION: I mistakenly said: "I think it would be helpful to determine which category you are in. I am in category C. ......... " I am in category ***D***. This is rather obvious, as I would not be...
Hi ModelT: There are two studies I think you might find helpful: The first I mentioned above - RTOG 0534 - a very comprehensive randomized controlled trial which seems to show a substantial benefit:...
Hi folks: IMPORTANT PRELIMINARY RESULTS REGARDING TREATMENTS AFTER RECURRENCE Those, like me, seeing PSA recurrence after prostatectomy would do well to take a look at the scant preliminary...
"All 3,711 passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship were tested, 712 tested positive, and of those, 331 (46 percent) have never shown outward symptoms, according to Japan’s health agency, which...
There are some data here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/01/rikers-island-jail-coronavirus-public-health-disaster ..... for the current worldwide numbers for total cases, deaths and...
Regarding the modes of transmission for Coronavirus, consider the following possibility which might help to explain why people have such different experiences with the virus. Perhaps: A) Those...
Thanks FranPro. Quick question, please: I have figured out that RO stands for 'radiation oncologist', it is in the list of abbreviations on another thread. But I do not see 'MO' in that list. Could...
And while I am here I will add the following observation, for what it may be worth: I have long been very health-conscious and it has worked out well for me: zero prescription medications at age 78,...
Thanks for these thoughts, Matt and Mumbo. VERY helpful. I think tomorrow I will approach my GP (who provided me with the original referral to the surgeon) and see if she can set up something with an...
Hi guys: I had surgery Oct 2016, and a uPSA (Labcorp) done Aug 2017 ten months later, it was 0.009. Things had been going well until just a short time ago. Since 2017 I had been doing periodic PSA...
Thank you Pratoman. That is VERY helpful, and entertaining (!), information. As I noted earlier, my understanding is that (at least in Japan, where the study was done) anything up to 0.05 is noise....
I know this a four year old thread, but I too am trying to find not only sources of ultrasensitive PSA tests, but also their lowest accuracy thresholds. (LabCorp seems to be refusing to tell me the...
Hi Mark: Just saw your post. I would be concerned about your %free PSA. Everyone is different, but over 25% is desirable for this number, so 8% is really low. Mine got as low as 7.5% and the...
A question about LabCorp's ultrasensitive PSA test: LabCorp's website says the reference range of their ECLIA test is: "0.000 - 4.000". But don't we all know that there are no currently-available PSA...
Hi AZ Guy: Your case seems very similar to mine, just age is different. I suggest an ultrasensitive PSA test periodically. My recent result - nine months after surgery - came in at 0.009. That is a...
To ASadvocate: Thanks. I suspect Johns Hopkins may be the world's leading PCa institution. (Although I am very happy with the one that did my prostatectomy too.) It was reading JH's AS criteria that...
Thanks for the inputs, guys. The issue I have is that I keep seeing data, and opinions, that seem to be based essentially on 'if you were to test everybody you would save only a small percentage from...
That article says, for example: "However, the USPSTF still would recommend against screening men aged 70 or older." Why would they not distinguish between very unhealthy men aged 70 or older and very...
Thank you. That is interesting. But it had seemed to me there is not much to discuss. I was hoping to get confirmation that prospective lifespan should certainly be the determinant of whether to...
Regarding the above news item on the healingwell webpage, while clearly I have not read all the papers involved there is one topic that I have never seen mentioned in this discussion about whether...
Hi AZ guy: My previous post was, of course, addressed to you. So is this one. You might want to take a look at some of the data here: https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/prost.html There is no...
I had one small, one millimetre, surgical margin. I have since seen one scientific paper which found no difference in outcome for a single very small positive margin versus no margin at all. (Of...
I have seen a paper which reported on finding that 0.4 was a superior treatment threshold number than 0.2. But no one seems to have taken up their suggestion that 0.4 be adopted as the standard. FWIW...
My biopsy reported 2% of the biopsy samples were cancer. The prostatectomy specimen was 8% cancer. This is very common. It is just a question of where the biopsy needles happen to intersect. In fact...