Guest guest Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Regulars will know how often we say “Don’t make a decision on one PSA result. Look for a pattern.” That advice is rather ironic in the light of my latest result – 2.9 ng/ml. Is that a good or bad result? 2.9 ng/ml isn’t a bad reading for a man in his late 60s with a large gland, is it? The reading was 8.2 ng/ml in April last year - so that looks even better But the last one – in November last year was 2.1 – so that’s a massive increase. That’s not good, is it? It’s more than the recommended 0.75 ng/ml/year. But I had three Zoladex shots – one in May last year and one in August and one in November. No wonder the PSA went down after that! And it did. These are my last four readings: April 2010: 8.2 ng/ml; August 2010: 2.3 ng/ml; November 2010: 2.1 ng/ml: February 2011: 2.9 ng/ml What conclusions can be drawn from this set of figures? Pessimists will say (and they may well be right) that the lack of powerful response to the Zoladex shows that the disease is becoming hormone resistant, time to step up the therapy a notch or two: Optimists (count me as one at least) say you could throw a small blanket over those results and nothing is moving, so that’s more likely to be good news than bad. So, what to do? Men who consistently advocate the ‘scientific’ approach and ‘evidence based’ medicine might find it difficult to find a scientific based answer, supported by good evidence, to that question. Anyone with any ideas? All the best Prostate men need enlightening, not frightening Terry Herbert - diagnosed in 1996 and still going strong Read A Strange Place for unbiased information at http://www.yananow.org/StrangePlace/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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