PSA After SBRT
After initial diagnosis my doctor recommended CyberKnife (SBRT). Prior to treatment my last PSA was 6.7. It is now 10 weeks after treatment and my PSA has dropped to 2.1. The radiologist had sketched out a graph of PSA gradually dropping after treatment so I didn't expect it to immediately drop down to 0.0 but wondered what others experience was after treatment.
BTW. Only had some very minor side effects and got myself off of flomax within 3 weeks of treatment.
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Hi,
Cyberknife does not kill the whole Prostate gland, just the cancerous tissue and a small margin around it. Your PSA will stabilize at some number in the future and hopefully stay there. Your Prostate will still produce a certain amount of PSA from the remaining live tissue.
Dave 3+4
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