My husband, diagnosed at age of 54 had his surgery in September 2006. His original Gleason was 3+4=7 and this was upgraded after his surgery to 4+3=7. His PSA initially was undetectable at 0.004

Everything going good till May 2008 when his PSA started to rise

May 2008 - PSA 0.05
July 2008 - PSA 0.09
October 2008 - PSA 0.16
January 2009 - PSA 0.24

He had salvage EBRT (External Beam Radiation Treatment) in March 2009; 33 in total

July 2009 PSA 0.4 Testosterone (T) 15
September 2009 - PSA 0.55 T 13
October 2009 Bone scan - Clear
December 2009 - PSA 0.52 T 13
March 2010 - PSA 0.70 T 11.8
June 2010 - PSA 0.61 T 9
September 2010 - PSA 0.8 T 11.4
January 2011 PSA 1.07 T 12.7

My PSA has been going up slowly every three month,because other health issuses I will most likely wait until it reaches 10.00 before starting Hormone Treatment. Watching and Waiting...

PSA updates March 2012 PSA 3.20, June,2012 PSA 6.3

He had last HT shot in June 2013 PSA contiues to be undectectable after 1 year of HT. Taking a HT break and will see what happen when his PSA starts to rise again. Neil has been diagosed with a serious and rare illness called Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).

Neil is no longer taking any treatment. It has been a year in 2014 since he had his last HT shot and after one year his PSA is 0.02 He is dealing with a another disease call Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, also called Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, is an uncommon brain disorder that causes serious problems with walking, and runs the on the same line as ALS.

[Deidre wrote: Neil is no longer having any other testing for PC due to dealing with another health problem and you should put him as Inactive.]

Neil's e-mail address is: wanlessdeidre AT gmail.com (replace "AT" with "@")

NOTE: Neil has not updated his story for more than 15 months, so you may not receive any response from him.