When I had my recurrence in December of 2005, my PSA made it’s way to 87.7 and I had a PSA doubling time of 4.2 months. Hormone deprivation therapy (ADT) caused the PSA to “drop like a rock” and within six to eight weeks my PSA was happily
When your PSA starts to rise after you have received primary treatment you need to be concerned that your prostate cancer has reoccurred. The first indicator of recurrent prostate cancer is a detectable level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Research has demonstrated that PSA doubling time is a reliable tool to distinguish which cancers pose a [...]
On January 30 I had my standard blood work, which included the old reliable PSA. As I have predicted, my PSA has continued to double at the rate of 5.1 months with the velocity of 0.02 ng/ml/mo. This is a rate that is consistent with the prior doubling rates, although my oncologist has told me [...]
I am trying to be well behaved, but I have to say that increasingly I am having a more difficult time controlling myself. My darling, loving wife, Wendy, says that I have to be nice and always listen to what others are saying. In theory that is great, but shouldn’t others also have to listen [...]
I recently had a regular follow-up appointment with my rheumatologist. Over the years he has had me on various non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (vioxx is one common example). My appointments with him have become fairly routine, we greet each other, he spends ten minutes scolding me because I still have not lost any weight and then [...]