PSA levels appear to be more predictive of three year risk in African-American men compared with Caucasian men with a family history of , according to a paper published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.Cancer Prevention Research...
The researchers subsequently analyzed men with a PSA between 1.5 to 4 ng/mL, and who had at least one follow-up visit. They found that among men with a family history of prostate cancer, PSA levels had the same predictive value whether the men were Caucasian or African-American. These fin...
When you get treatment -- whether it's chemo, hormone therapy, a vaccine, or a combination -- your PSA levels should drop and stay low. If you have surgery to remove your prostate, you will likely have undetectable PSA levels after a couple of months. Sometimes, a very low level of ...
Prevalence of Prostate Cancer Among Men with Normal PSA LevelsProstate CancerNew England Journal of Medicine
Also, if you’re diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, you have to wait until after the infection has cleared up before you have a PSA test. 5) Aging As we age, the prostate gland increases in size, and the PSA levels go up. In general, everything that increases the size of the...
Also, a significant correlation was observed between serum PSA level and the grade of the disease.Conclusion: Considering that prostatic carcinoma is one of cancers usually diagnosed late and since biopsy is hardly accepted by patients, with regard to the relationship between serum levels of free ...
In PSA levels testing it is well known that there are many "false positive" results and "false negative" results. Needle biopsy is very profitable. This useless test lead to far too many men into having unnecessary dangerous life threatening biopsies. ...
If your total PSA levels are in the borderline area between 4-10 ng/mL, your free PSA ratio can give you a more detailed picture of your cancer risk. The chances that a needle biopsy will turn up prostate cancer varies by your free PSA concentration and your age: Concentration of more ...
The PSA (KLK3) genetic variant rs17632542 is associated with reduced prostate cancer risk and lower serum PSA levels, although the underlying reasons are unclear. Here, the authors show that this PSA variant reduced proteolytic activity and leads to smaller tumours, but also increases invasion and...
Men with PSA levels above the median had a significantly increased risk for prostate cancer in the 40 to 49 group (OR = 7.3; 95% CI, 2.4-21.8), 50 to 54 group (OR = 7.6; 95% CI, 3.4-17.2) and 55 to 59 group (OR = 10.1...