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Posted 04 Jul 2016 at 20:14

HELLO FORUM MEMBERS


New to this site so here goes my story=diagnosed at christmas with aggressive prostate cancer psa=257,glesson score=10 not gone into bone but just spread outside the prostate,got put on to prostap 3 hormone injection,6 cycles of chemo,after every 3 weeks blood test done amazing results psa came right down =week 1 =17.28 cycle 2 =6.15 cycle 3 =5.87 cycle 4 -0.00 cycle 5 -0.00 last cycle today confuses me gone up to 0.72,does this mean the cancer is coming back?chemo nurses say its nothing to worry about,but i am, can anyone tell me if this is normal,would be glad of any advise

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Posted 04 Jul 2016 at 21:13

Hi Deky, best to trust your medical team on these things. It may be that your most recent blood test came just before your next Prostap injection was due - or sometimes the chemo causes a flurry of objections from the cancer cells as they die off, causing a little bit more pSA to be produced.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard
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Posted 04 Jul 2016 at 21:34

Thanks for your quick reply LynEyre its all confusing to me this,never been in a life situation like this

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Posted 05 Jul 2016 at 07:26

Hi Deky

Remember that you still have a prostate so it woukd be unusual not to produce some PSA

Bri

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Posted 05 Jul 2016 at 09:14
Hi Deky
My hubby has recently had radiotherapy on his prostate as a palliative measure to try to prevent kidney failure. They didn't test the PSA afterwards as they said any test done after a radical treatment like RT or chemo can be unreliable. Try not to worry, I know it's hard not to but dying cancer cells do give off PSA I'm told and that can affect the result.

Best wishes
Devonmaid
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Posted 05 Jul 2016 at 09:40

Thanks Devonmaid,my doctor has said i will be going away to liverpool 6 blasts of RT so we we see what happens?it's just strange how my last 3 chemo's was psa=0.00  psa=0.00 psa=0.72,but thank-you for your reassuring answer 

 
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