THIS YEAR, IT’S estimated that nearly 300,000 new prostate cancer cases will be diagnosed. While there’s no single test to detect prostate cancer, doctors commonly use the prostate-specific antigen ...
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What is a PSA test and how is it used?
In this two-part series, we'll describe the PSA test-- how it's used, and how doctors perform next steps in the event of an abnormal reading. Our first post addresses PSA screening for prostate cancer ...
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How is PSA used to monitor prostate cancer?
Editor's note: second of two parts; read part one here.. In the first part of our series, we described how PSA is used as a screening tool to help detect prostate cancer in men who don't have symptoms ...
Opportunistic prostate cancer screening can lead to overdiagnosis of indolent diseases and invasive procedures. A cohort study suggested that a low baseline PSA level in midlife was associated with a ...
Hormone therapy initiation depends on disease extent; some agents avoid testosterone flare, allowing ADT without Casodex in certain cases. Active surveillance is increasingly chosen for favorable ...
A single PSA test at midlife may identify men with a low risk of prostate cancer for up to 20 years, supporting longer screening intervals. Men with a low baseline PSA level at midlife have a low risk ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - On average, men's levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) decrease as their body mass index (BMI) rises, a new study shows. PSA is a marker for prostate cancer risk when ...
Achieving a PSA nadir of less than 0.2 ng/mL is needed for optimal mCSPC outcomes. For real-world patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC), reaching a PSA nadir less than ...
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