PSA as a Reliable Indicator

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Got a battery of tests going on to understand why my immune system is not as good as our blog’s humor guy (starts with a J)

In reviewing some of the ancient history I found that my PSA was 1.14 in January, 22.

In late July, 22 I had a brain MRI but my legs blew up a week later to twice their size. It turns out one of the bulky lymph nodes had wrapped around my ureter causing one kidney to fail. Rescued later with a stent.

So in six months you have very symptomatic metastatic prostate cancer. It might have been that way for a year, but a CT scan a year before showed nothing. Of course it took another two months to get all the scans in and see the oncologist in October. Then I received the definitive diagnosis of an extremely rare extremely aggressive cancer variant. I think my PSA was around 4 or so at the height of my cancers’s spread.

If your cancer expresses low PSA you are probably hosed as far as getting some advance warning to head it off. But it does work for garden variety cancer. Personally I think my future gallium PSMA scans will alert before my PSA rises.

Anyone else wish to compare notes on their low PSA cancer as to treatment, prognosis, etc. I recently got a clean scan after 2 years of Abby and Lupie, and only one chemo. Praise the Lord!

That’s the rub which is good! I have heard these types of cancers respond well to treatment.

Oh, conspiracy theorists, I had my fourth COVID booster three months before all HECK broke loose.