Prostate Cancer

Hi BY

Probably the most important thing now is monitoring the psa, has he had one since the Radiotherapy?

Is he still on hormone therapy,  I presume that the tumour was confined to the prostate.

Steve

Hi Steve My OH has finished all his treatment 2 yrs ago hes been on active surveillance and his tumour hadn't spread he has a psa blood test every 3 months for 18 months then 6 monthly from now on just got no faith in his Drs 

Looking at his profile I see that his psa was .03 sometime ago.

So long  as it stays roughly the same, a few points up or down doesn't matter, he should be ok. I presume that he is no longer on HT.

His GP can't do much wrong monitoring his psa so I wouldn't worry too much.

Unless his psa is creeping up then 6 month PSAs should be ok. After 1 year I went onto yearly PSA Tests and my psa was higher than his.

Steve

As Steve says, his GP can't really do anything wrong with ongoing PSA monitoring, I assume all that's happening is that blood tests will be taken and results obtained via your GP.

I followed exactly the same path after completion of radiotherapy and hormone treatment in late 2016. At first I had PSA blood tests taken at my GP surgery (but only because I asked for this because of the distance to hospital) and had to attend hospital for the results. After a few satisfactory results I moved to telephone calls from the hospital to tell me results and again after a few satisfactory results I will be getting results from my GP surgery with no hospital involvement. I have been given a booklet to record ongoing results and if future results show a trend above agreed limits I will be taken back into the hospital's care. Hopefully this will never be necessary.

To me this is reassuring because the consultant must consider I am past the high risk period since treatment ended.

I hope your husband's results continue to be good.