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PSA starting to rise after ERBT

User
Posted 08 Jul 2020 at 12:06
Great update Pete
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

User
Posted 08 Jul 2020 at 12:07
Great result Pete, delighted for you.
User
Posted 08 Jul 2020 at 13:31

Great news Pete. 

Ido4

User
Posted 16 Dec 2020 at 14:58

Not posted on here for about 6 months but today is one of those good ones that everybody needs from time to time. It's 5 years since my original diagnosis and my PSA is 0.1 so no movement at all since July. I am halfway through a 2 year course of bicalutamide after SABR treatment in March this year to treat a recurrence in the lymph nodes (3 small lumps). Allowing for the fact that bicalutamide can disguise any growth in hormone resistant cells, I am still pretty chuffed.

Best wishes for the holiday season to everybody on these forums and to all the wonderful staff at Cancer Centres and Hospitals throughout the UK.

User
Posted 16 Dec 2020 at 15:19

That’s great to hear Pete.  Enjoy Christmas and all the best for 2021.

Angex

User
Posted 17 Dec 2020 at 16:31

Great to hear Pete. 

Ido4

User
Posted 22 Jan 2022 at 10:31

Sorry I haven't posted on here for a while but I thought I'd update people on how things have gone now I've finished my 2 years on Bicalutamide. My PSA level has not budged in 18 months. I have had 4 readings of 0.1 ng. The nurse practitioner at Clatterbridge has told me they will do another PSA test in June/July this year and that reading will be taken as my new baseline. I've been advised it will likely rise after the cessation of the bicalutamide.

Just reflecting on this - I can't speak highly enough of the treatment I've had at Clatterbridge. I was in the mindset, when the PSA started rising, of you can't have radiotherapy again. This is, clearly, not always the case. I was lucky in that the affected lymph nodes were above the prostate and that opened up the pathway for SABR radiation to those lymph nodes.

I am looking forward to a spell off hormone treatment.

User
Posted 22 Jan 2022 at 11:02

All the best Pete48. Hears hoping for continued good news. 

I finish HT in Dec. Can't wait.

Jim

 
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