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<blockquote data-quote="wpr" data-source="post: 1710504" data-attributes="member: 4159"><p>Thanks for sharing. It's interesting how the medical field looks at the PSA score. They have changed their minds a couple of times as to its relevance. My Dad was one of the few who actually died from prostate cancer. It's slow growing for most men. Not him. He had radiation and chemo but it still got him. During this time we learned my grandfather had it as well but was ashamed and didn't want the family to know. (It was the early 60s.) My eldest aunt knew and only after Dad's condition was known that she informed him. Dad's younger brother also had cancer too. Both my uncle and grandfather died from other things. My older brother had some kind of treatment. Not cancer related. So needless to say the men in our family watch this. 0.5 PSA the last two blood tests and about that for the past 20 years. Correct me if I am wrong doctors look more at the movement in the number that the actual number itself. Of course if you are an 8 they are going to be concerned whether it has moved in the past year or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wpr, post: 1710504, member: 4159"] Thanks for sharing. It's interesting how the medical field looks at the PSA score. They have changed their minds a couple of times as to its relevance. My Dad was one of the few who actually died from prostate cancer. It's slow growing for most men. Not him. He had radiation and chemo but it still got him. During this time we learned my grandfather had it as well but was ashamed and didn't want the family to know. (It was the early 60s.) My eldest aunt knew and only after Dad's condition was known that she informed him. Dad's younger brother also had cancer too. Both my uncle and grandfather died from other things. My older brother had some kind of treatment. Not cancer related. So needless to say the men in our family watch this. 0.5 PSA the last two blood tests and about that for the past 20 years. Correct me if I am wrong doctors look more at the movement in the number that the actual number itself. Of course if you are an 8 they are going to be concerned whether it has moved in the past year or not. [/QUOTE]
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