Re: BPH story of a PCa patient

ralphv_in_az@xxxxxxxxx wrote...snip...
The doubling of PSA to avoid missing a diagnosis of PCa when treating a
patient with BPH does not apply in the case under discussion.

Hi Ralph...I thought that anyone taking a 5-AR inhibitor, whether they
have PCa or not, should double their PSA value to get a "true"
(non-medicated) PSA reading. Am I understanding you to say that men
with PCa using 5-AR inhibitors need not do this "doubling"? Are you
saying that, in such cases of men with PCa using finasteride or
dutasteride, the tumor kill and prostate shrinkage due to the 5-AR
inhibitor use is what is causing the PSA to fall to half of the
pre-5-AR inhibitor value?..Ron

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