Q A: Rising PSA After Prostate Cancer Treatment Many questions were submitted before and during PCF’s webinar on rising PSA after treatment for localized prostate cancer Dr Paul Nguyen responded to questions during the webinar and Dr Ashley Ross provided responses to several select questions afterwards Please note that this information is intended to help guide discussions with your medical provider and is not individual medical
Time without PSA recurrence after radical prostatectomy as a . . . Objective Although surveillance after radical prostatectomy routinely includes repeated prostate specific antigen (PSA)-testing for many years, biochemical recurrence often occurs without further clinical progression We therefore hypothesised that follow-up can be shortened for many patients without increasing the risk of prostate cancer death
What are the chances that prostate cancer will return after . . . Cancer recurrence was assessed by evaluating changes in PSA levels The levels should fall to zero if a man's prostate has been removed, so continued elevations or a sudden spike in PSA after surgery indicate that cancer still lurks in the body This type of recurrence is called biochemical failure The men were followed for roughly three years