A short talk about PSA

  PSA stands for prostate specific antigen.


  Prostate cells are the only place in the body this is produced.


  If you are perfectly healthy your PSA is usually really low, somewhere below 4.0. That is depending on age. If you are under 50, your PSA should be much lower than 4.0. Somewhere around 50 men's prostates start enlarging and producing more PSA.


  Having a higher PSA means something unusual is going on in  the prostate. The following things can cause the PSA to rise.
 
Sex
Riding bicycles
Infections
Strenuous exercises
BPH - natural enlargement of the prostate due to aging
Prostate cancer


  I listed cancer last because if you are in your 30s, 40s, or even 50s or even older, one of the other reasons may well be why your PSA is high. But if you are older than 60, you likely will get prostate cancer.


  Now, if you have had your prostate removed like myself you shouldn't be producing ANY PSA.  If you do, then that means the cancer has spread outside of the prostate.


Here is my current PSA curve
My Current PSA Curve


And here is my previous curve.
My previous curve