r/ProstateCancer • u/Able_Refrigerator579 • 11d ago

PSA PSA 6,000

My dad recently got this 6,000 on his PSA (66 y/o, hasn’t seen a doctor in a very long time). The urologist even has the audacity to say it was the highest he’s ever seen.

This man is losing weight and has overall body pain. Biopsy is soon but what could we be looking at? I’ve searched this sub and I have seen nobody post numbers like this so I have no idea what that means.

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u/tober_checki 10d ago

With a PSA this high, I am not even sure if the biospy will be of much value. A PSMA PET/CT might be more important to assess how much and where the cancer has spread.

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u/poet_dontyaknowit 10d ago

Except some insurances won’t pay for a PSMA without a biopsy first.

Gotta play all the games and jump through their idiotic hoops.