Hi My husband has prostate cancer. I think we are in a good, wait and see place, but wanted to get your opinions. My husband had a RP in November of 2018. He never went to undetectable. So in the spring of 2019 he had ADT and salvage radiation treatment. For the last almost two years he was undetectable. However, this last PSA check the doc said he now has a .01 PSA. Obviously really low and doc said that his radiation failed but does not seem concerned. But we are bummed that the salvage radiation did not provide a cure.
We recently moved where the previous doc was having him test every 4 months. Now that he actually has PSA, although minimal, his new doc is suggesting he come back in 6 months. Does that seem correct?
He's had the Decipher test which said his risk was 61% after RP. His cancer would not be responsive to Docetoxel, but to Dosatinb (not even sure what these are).
Any insight would be welcome. And I'm sorry if this seems so petty considering the extreme measures and difficulties that many of you are facing and enduring.
0.01 is the lower limit of the test, and as you say, is minimal. At this point, he should not even be having an ultrasensitive PSA test. He would not do anything unless his PSA rises above 1.0, and possibly not even then, so why subject yourself to such anxiety?
Wonderful. That's where we are leaning, but wanted another opinion.
Tall-Allen - as usual is correct. My RO has me do a PSA every six months, but the assay only measures PSA that surpasses 0.09, which will indicate failure. I'm at 3 1/2 years post-radiation. The 0.01 seems pretty darned low, as Tall_Allen notes.