I suppose the figure is normally taken as being with HT because the vast majority of men have adjuvant HT after RT. This does raise an interesting aspect though because the time for HT may be anywhere between nil (as in my case) upto three years (subject to individual case consideration).
Yes ,I also didn’t have any ht after rt ,I only had 3injections of zoladex in total , when I visited my doctor for a routine appointment a few months later , he immediately queried why I wasn’t on ht !and told me to have a psa test immediately , Luckily I remember it well, the meeting with the oncologist was on my 65th birthday ! When he told me psa reading 0.01 , 3months after rt finished ,and no need for anymore ht, I was pleased with that , but he never sent a letter to my doctor . Oncologist said your psa tests every 6 months and it will rise gradually , no spikes allowed and we will review things once /if ? it gets to 2. That was 4 yrs ago . Reading at last psa test 0.25 .