Re: highest PSA?

Hi All
Thanks for your answers, so 200+ doesn't sound that unique, I am aconcrned a
bit about a raised count (2 > 2.7) maybe I am super cautious but I am
repeating the PSA in 2 months time.
With cancer in all my family I am a realist?
Kind regards
Pete

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From: sspeb@xxxxxxxxxxx (Pete)

Hi All
I have just met a chap who's PSA was recorded as over 200, has anyone
ever head of such a score?
This person is approx 57 years old and had radiotherapy treatment but
the cancer has got into his arms now (bones).
He is waiting to hear another PSA result tomorrow, but I was amazed that
anyone could have that high a score!!
Pete

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hi pete - 200 is high but nowhere near the highest psa readings. where
to start??? hummmmm...... ok, i'll start rambling and hope this all
makes sense.

we just lost a member of the club who was dx'ed with pca at age 40 with
a psa of 846. he lived two years after being dx'ed.

of course, robert young had a psa of 1000 + and founded phoenix 5.

then we had a new member post that he was 53 and dx'ed with a psa of
2500. he posted a couple more times after that, but then no more
postings.

berkey, the warrior, had a psa of 4900 i think.

we had a member over in india whose father had a psa of 8000.

and i've heard of one person having a psa of 11,000.

i seen the psa reading jump by hundreds by the hour - in the final day
of life.

of the flip side, i've seen people die FROM prostate cancer, whose psa
never got over 50. my dad was one of them.

so, that kinda of gives you some idea of what's happening.

the bottom line - there is no one canned answer.

hope this helps,

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
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