My experience with prostate cancer is a textbook case.

Sometime in mid 2007, I did my executive check-up which revealed an enlarged prostate.   I was not feeling anything abnormal in my body - normal urination, no discomfort or anything.   My attending doctor asked for a PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) bloodtest, in whcih the result was 5.0ng/ml.   This was a bit high, considering a normal range would be 0.0ng/ml - 4.0ng/ml. I was put on "watchful waiting", a term used to actively monitor my medical condition.

Suceeding PSA test last Jan2008 with a higher reading of 6.2ng/ml and a special "free PSA"test in March with 12.9ng/ml brought me for a TRUS (trans-rectal Ultra Sound) prostate biopsy confirming ADENOCARCENOMA,Gleason Score: 3,3 , stage 1.  Further test (bone CT scan, abdominal CT scan, x-rays, etc) revealed no metastasis (spreading of cancer cells) in the bone or other organs. I got my ADT (oral & injectons) to reduce male hormone "testerone" to deprive the cancer cellsof their "food".

I underwent brachytherapy last June 11, 2009, receiving 45  radioactive seed implants.  A month after, PSA reading was 0.09ng/ml.  Then in Sept (3 months after) PSA result was 0.089, by December(6 months after), PSA was 0.07.

... to be continued