Worried cancer may have returned!
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Back in 2006 I was diagnosed with Prostate cancer with a PSA of 17, treatment was 20 sessions of radiotherapy followed by Zoladex implant every 3 months for 3 years, my PSA then dropped to 0.10. There it remained until 2011 when it went up to 0.40.
From then until 2018 it varied between 0.40 and 0.71, but since then every test has shown a slight increase:
15th June 2018 PSA@0.59
24th Dec 2018 PSA@0.81
11th July 2019 PSA@0.71
3rd Dec 2019 PSA@0.71
8th Sept 2020 PSA@0.75
12th March 2021 PSA@0.84
16th Sept 2021 PSA@0.94
15th March 2022 PSA@1.15
8th Sept 2022 PSA@1.47
24th March 2023 PSA@2.17
Should I be concerned, the letter from the hospital with this latest result just suggests a retest in 3 month's time, I normally have a test every 6 months!
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barney34567 roy47530
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The rule I was taught when undergoing treatment is that you should focus on how long it takes = the PSA to double. If it doubles in under 12 months, that is bad.
In your case from 06/2018 to 03/2022 it rose but did not double. Let's say it was 1.2 in 06/2022. That indicates a slow progression.
But from 03/2022 to 03/2023 it almost doubled.
It's the last 12 months that convinces me that you should see your urologist again and ask him what options are available for you and what he recommends.