Rising PSA

A well referred urologist is who you require, someone on top of their game who is capable of offering options, if necessary, when the time arrives. Seems 'wait and see' might be appropriate for you at this time. My diagnosis revealed stage 1, agressive, within a year, action required. Chill, trust good and effective doctors.

Hi everyone,

I was ghost for couple of days while I further investigated my rising psa. For this I apologize. I had a new psa/free psa test done this pass wed at the same lab and the results were 2.1/ 19% which indicates psa still rising and free psa abnormal. I will see my Urologist next week so I can request a 3Tmpmri and a fusion biopsy of the prostate. I will keep all posted. Thanks for your support.

I have just been diagnosed with prostate cancer and am waiting to see what they suggest. It will be radio or radical prostctmy. My psa went up from 1.7 to 16 over 10 yrs then 16-32 inine year. twp biopsys later..... here I am. Reading here is helpful but everyone is different it appears. I spoke to nice nurses at prostatecancer.org. wonderfully helpful. try them too.

hi.

No it is def PIN. ABNORMAL cells in prostate which the consult. said were unlikely to progress to cancer. But they did. hey ho.

Scans each showed the same - no changes noted from first to second. Biopsy 2 found them.

So were the cancerous cells there but not picked up first biopsy or was the second one " lucky" or had things moved on? Dunno.

It was only the fact I had increases in psa which indicated trouble.

Nowt to do but see what treatment they suggest.

thanks

It seems the issue is growing on you. Do something about it and get a checkup and talk about options with the doctor.

Rising PSA is not good.

The fact that a biopsy was not informative means either the samples taken were not representative of what is going on OR the pathologist is not as skilled as he/she thinks he/she is.

Ideally a specialist (in prostates) pathologist is what you need. I waited for a couple of months a few years ago for a very skilled person to examine the biopsy samples in my case.

I have a similar situation at the moment Oscar. My PSA has risen from 0.7 to 1.7 in about 7 months. I did see the urologist last year in September and he did tell me that I have an enlarged prostate and that PSA levels can rise because of this. My GP is very concerned though and wants to see me on Monday to discuss. Interestingly my Thyroid levels are all over the place as well.

You are still in the normal range and I would not be remotely concerned. Do, however, have routine PSA tests.

I agree with David. Keep up the PSA tests every six months and see if there is a change before considering anything to do. (Barney Gleason 9)