PROSTABLOG NZ: The PSA test may get a bad rap from epidemiologists and the Ministry of Health, but so far as I’m concerned it’s a winner.
It’s a reliable post-treatment indicator of whether your prostate cancer is coming back or not, and I’ve just had my two-year test – and it remains undetectable.
That’s very good news, so far as I can discern. My reading of things prostate tells me the two-year mark is a crucial one, a time when recurrence is most likely to rear its unwelcome head.
That doesn’t mean I’m cured. There’s a long way to go before that marker, perhaps a decade.
The only thing I’m not sure about is the fact my PSA never registered much (let alone any change) prior to my diagnosis in 2008.
Does that mean post-surgery PSA tests won’t work on me either.
Nah, let’s not dwell on it.
Where the PSA is variable prior to the diagnosis of prostate cancer, it is very reliable as a marker for after the treatment of prostate cancer. I am not aware of a “false negative” PSA after one has been treated. So…my across the world and fellow bloger and prostate cancer ?survivor…I think you are good. The longer you go with the PSA being undetectable the better. Ps…sure are a lot of combustable engines in your blog header…. jm