Vasectomy and PSA rising

[bartesam]

Would that be normal and in what grade if?

Thanks.

[Tall_Allen]

Suspicions of a causal link between vasectomies and prostate cancer were dispelled a few years ago by a large prospective study:

"These findings from a large European prospective study show no elevated risk for overall, high-grade or advanced-stage prostate cancer, or death due to prostate cancer in men who have undergone a vasectomy compared with men who have not."

ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.12...

I doubt the PSA rise is directly caused by the vasectomy. It is possible that the procedure was responsible for introducing a pathogen that caused prostatitis (not prostate cancer).

Grade can only be determined by a biopsy.

[bartesam in reply to Tall_Allen]

Thank you, the pathogen introduction is new to me,