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If you haven't explored the Website yet, you might like to do so now. Please read especially PSA 101 and A STRANGE PLACE - PSA It will not take you long, but will give you a good understandikng of the basics of PSA tests and their inaccuracy in detecting Prostate Cancer.
It is of utmost importance to bear in mind that PSA is NOT Prostate Cancer Specific. Of course the production of PSA can be increased by prostate cancer, but in the substantially majority of cases it is something else that is doing it.
As Lenny says, if your doctor is so ignorant as to give you a DRE before taking blood, find a doctor who knows the basics at least.
Chip, Terry says about all there is to say concerning PSA so reading that is a MUST.
But just to give you some idea. I had a PSA test 22 days after a saturation biopsy (more than 20 needles)and it was 5.98. A test at the same lab 3 weeks later was 1.75. Huge difference - as there will be with yours, I'm sure.
