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Hello Harry300a5bc36 

PSA 8.7 Very High!!!!  Mine was 182 on diagnosis and 4 years later I feel better than ever!!

Harry300a5bc36 said:

Am I toast?

Honest, you are not even in the kitchen, never mind near the toaster.

Time to relax with another sangria.

With a PSA of 8.7 whatever they find should be very much treatable and you should end uo being on a "curative pathway".

Best wishes -Brian.

Millibob said:

Honest, you are not even in the kitchen, never mind near the toaster.

LOL!!!!!   And so true, too!    AW

I meant to say PSA..... Not SPA... Sorry 

Thank You, Brian.

Everything I've read has said I had 25% of having it.  Even though you warned me about stay away from Dr. Google 

I liked your kitchen comment 

Y️our words are really reassuring.

Your PSA was 182?

Harry (Harry300a5bc36) 

Yes, with an elevated PSA you may well have Prostate Cancer but with a PSA of 8.7 it's unlikely to have spread and it's probably contained to the gland - very treatable.

You can read my 4 year epic (for free!) by clicking on my name or avatar. Yes i started out with a PSA of 182 - 2 weeks ago it was 2.04 .

Best wishes - Brian.

Hopefully the others have given you some reassurance.  My take is that with the PSA going down very slightly over a 6 month period you don’t have too much of a problem.  If you had an aggressive prostate cancer we would have seen a PSA of well over 20 by now.  But your PSA went down! Relax.

Wow... Simply Wow    

 I've read has said that anything over 6 or 7 is a very aggressive cancer.... And has mostly metastasized into other areas.

I have to ask a delicate question, the men who have passed because of disease is because their SPA were much higher? 

Your story is fantastic and truly uplifting

Thank You again. 

I truly hope that this true for me.

You have given me more reassurance than the physician.

If it is confined to the prostate, I'm having the prostate ripped out

End of problem...

Hi Harry300a5bc36

It's true to say that most men who have PC die with it rather than because of it & that it's other medical issues that get them (think back to when Covid was around, it was as if all the deaths were because of Covid rather than them suffering with something else).  Not to make light of it, but they could just as easily be hit by a bus.  

As David2017 says, with your PSA going down, you shouldn't have too much of a problem.  My initial PSA was 7.6 & has been treated as curable & it's now 2 years down the line that my RT finished & life was pretty much back to normal within 12 months.

Best Wishes

Brian

Thank You, David

That makes sense  I hope it will go down even more for the next blood test 

Thanks again for comments. I really appreciate it

Hello Harry (Harry300a5bc36) 

The PSA is an indicator of cancer but it's not a scale at all. It's usual for anything under 20 to be contained in the gland but I was 182 and mine was contained. (My pelvic lymph nodes were zapped as I had a shadow on them on my MRI).

It's the Gleason Score from the Prostate biopsy that tells you how aggressive it is, mine is next to the top - Gleason 9 (5+4).

You need to change your reading habits to trusted sources, Prostate Cancer UK, Cancer Research UK and Macmillan - here's something to get your teeth into:

Staging-and-grading-of-prostate-cancer.

So stage 3 and 4 is locally advanced prostate cancer.

Most Community members we have lost to prostate cancer have been Stage 4.

"I'm having the prostate ripped out!"

Ah - that's an interesting statement and it's major surgery - there may well be 2 or 3 other options open to you far less invasive and don't forget this cancer affects your relationship too so if there is a significant other half have a good chat first and a look at the other options is a good idea.

We are all happy to give advice - we all wear the t-shirt!!

Best wishes - Brian.