diagnosed in March 2018

[elainea53]

My husband is 73 and was diagnosed with advanced prostrate cancer in March. He was started on hormone and chemo treatment. He had been taking finesteride and we found out that the psa should be doubled when on it. So it was not caught early and I guess the urologist didn't know to double psa so was not concerned.

[sgrama]

Not for sure what you mean to double the PSA I've never heard of this. You definitely don't want the PSA level to double because that's not good. What is his PSA level right now? Normal PSA is 0-4 Just kind of confused on what you mean. It looks like finesteride is used to treat enlarged prostate. My husband is 76 years old and was diagnosed 12 years ago now he has eligard hormone shots every 6 months and Xgeva injections every month for his bones because it metastized to his bones in 2016 and then last year he had 7 chemo treatments and then he was on zytiga for a few months but it quit working and PSA started to rise again. He just went thru 3 Provenge immunotherapy treatments ended last month. Oncologist wants to give him chemo again because his PSA went from 20 last Nov. to now it's 373.

[gusgold]

finesteride can lower PSA from BPH but not PCa

[elainea53 in reply to gusgold]

its a shame the urologist didn't know this

[Dan59]

I believe Gus is right in his comment. I was always on avodart , which is a drug in the same class, and I had read that about the halving the psa. We always just went with the actual number while on Finesteride and Avodart, also I had also read recently, what Gus said that BPH causes psa to be cut half when on finesteride, and not the psa produced by the cancer. What were your original psa, and what is it now? How is everything else going?What treatments are you on?

Dan