Re: Re: PSA readings after prostatectomy

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Mac Wrote:

: Is that 0.5 or 0.05? After my surgery in Feb. O6 my PSA has always

tested at < 0.05 which I assume was the low limit for the test. Sure hope it

stays there too.

The number that AUA uses is 0.5 in trying to define a nuts and bolts level

for " undetectable " . It is infinitely more complicated than that but I accept

that definition for my own purposes. If you want to get a little more, read

this from the Prostate Cancer Research Institute (PCRI). As with all things

Prostate, there is no stone tablet with anything chiseled into it.

http://tinyurl.com/kdp7c

" To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we

do not know, that is true knowledge. " Nicolaus Copernicus

Re: PSA readings after prostatectomy

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>> The American Urological Association states: " Psa should be undetectable

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> : Is that 0.5 or 0.05? After my surgery in Feb. O6 my PSA has always

> tested at < 0.05 which I assume was the low limit for the test. Sure hope

> it stays there too.

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