Showing posts with label medical oncologist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical oncologist. Show all posts

Saturday, October 30, 2021

 PSA 0.05 

My PSA is maybe rearing its head after 15 years. An ultrasensitive test in mid-2020 was .02. In August it was 0.05 (different lab).

I saw a medical oncologist who specializes in prostate cancer. His advice: don't sweat it, we'll start monitoring every 3 months for a while, see if anything is really going on. I'll get tested again early next year.

Meantime, I've got lymphoma, and start seeing a specialist for that soon. Doesn't appear to be an immediate problem--the kind I've got is incurable, but highly treatable, and median survival times are now stretching out to 20+ years for it.  The close monitoring and scans by the hematologist (who works at the same practice as the prostate oncologist) should help insure neither cancer poses a serious threat anytime soon.