I am 48, and was 46 when diagnosed. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1/03, and did hdr with 25 ebrt treatments in 5/03. I'm 18 months past now and psa has been like a roller coaster. 1st psa (6 month follow up)psa had dropped from 6.7 pre treatment down to only 2.4, and at 12 months it had elevated back to 4.4. Doc put me on Cipro and and checked again 1 month later, it dropped to 3.8 and then 2 months later it climbed to 6.4, so this time 30 days of cipro. psa in nove back down to 3.7.
Doc thinks it is a combination of psa bounce and prostate infection. When diagnosed only 1 out of 12 biopsies had cancer. Gleason 3+3=6, mri of prostate showed it was confined to prostate. my docs success rate with hdr is flawless. he has doen 100's of them. He said its hard to compare my psa to others because I'm a young man with an old mans disease. I did not take hormones as most men do before the hdr.
Will get results of latest psa next Mon.
Curious if any other men my age has had similar problems.