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Male 71 -74
Interview 20  

Interview 20

Age at Interview: 71
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 69
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1998. External beam radiation and short hormone treatment.


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Male
Describes how his monitored PSA levels raised enough to cause concern.

 



I really didn't discover a problem myself because my condition was what I would describe as benign. I go to France annually and when I am there I have a check-up with a doctor in France. And over a three, I think, a three or four year period the doctor noticed that my PSA, this is the Prostate Specific Antigen test that she does routinely, that it had gone up from something like 2 or 3 to 7.

May I just ask, before the doctor did the test, the PSA test did she explain what it meant and what the implications were?

Oh yes, yes I mean she said that anybody over the age of 50 and certainly I'm more than that, ought to have an annual PSA test which she does routinely for elderly people, men anyway in her practice in France.

But at that stage did she explain that if the PSA level was unusually high and if cancer was found what the options would be, did she explain at that stage?

No, no at that stage there was no question of discussing whether my condition was cancerous or not. It was a matter of monitoring the PSA level and to see whether any malignancy would occur. And I understood it to be a routine test, a sort of monitoring test and if the situation warranted it, like the PSA went up some alarming amount then other tests would follow, because it would be an indication that that the prostate was malignant.
Karol Sikora - Prostate cancer
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