Good news

[rhbishop2]

Can I share my good news? I had Cyberknife treatment to the met on my spine a month ago. My PSA has already gone down from 6.75 to 4.16. Yippee!

Bob

[JamesAtlanta]

Congratulations!😊

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Cool!

[Sisira]

Bob, it certainly is good news and I am happy for you. I went through your profile and found that over the past 8 years you have taken all good treatments for your medium risk PCa of GS7 : RP, IBRT and ADT. Still your PSA is 4.6 meaning that your PCa is not in remission. Apart from the bone met you have identified and removed there could be more metastases in the body. Have you done a Gallium 68 PSMA PET/CT Scan or a similar other scan which can identify such metastases? This much of PSA is sufficient to identify even very small mets in your body. Just some thoughts.

All the very best!

Sisira

[rhbishop2 in reply to Sisira]

Thanks, Sisira. To be honest I hadn't even expected a fall in PSA in the first month after treatment. In fact I thought it might rise as the cancer cells got revved up by the radiation. My hope is that it will fall to undetectable over about three months. If we get an equivalent fall next month, I want to stop the ADT and see how things go. I've had a lot of scans and, since my prostatectomy, no-one has ever found anything except the problem with T10. ADT is dangerous and I've been on it now for over six years on and off. I think that's enough. I'm being looked after by some really top guys in London and I have a lot of confidence in them.

Thanks again for your input.

Bob

[j-o-h-n]

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Good Luck and Good Health!

j-o-h-n Sunday 07/09/2017 12:04 PM EST