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...
Your doctor will also consider other things, including what your PSA levels were before you had cancer, your overall health, and whether you've had radiation therapy. After radiation therapy it may take 1-2 years for your PSA to drop to its lowest level. ...
"It was previously thought that PSA levels were just naturally higher in African-American men, suggesting a need to possibly adjust the threshold upward before recommending a biopsy," said Veda Giri, M.D., director of the Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Giri...
Identification of such factors would help the decision of whether early treatment is appropriate. Fall and colleagues, therefore, evaluated the predictive accuracy of early changes in PSA level for determining prostate cancer outcomes.doi:10.1038/ncpuro0825NoneNature Clinical Practice Urology...
Prevalence of Prostate Cancer Among Men with Normal PSA LevelsProstate CancerNew England Journal of Medicine
When Should I Have My PSA Levels Tested? The first thing to do is to talk to your doctor about the pros and cons of prostate cancer screening before you decide whether to be tested. Don’t get tested until you have that talk. Opinions differ about when you should do that. ...
trial randomized 18,882 eligible men (age ≥55 years, normaldigital rectal examination[DRE] andPSAlevels <3 ng/mL) to finasteride (5 mg daily) or placebo for 7 years. There was a 25% reduction in the prevalence of prostate cancer over this 7-year period from 30.6% in the placebo ...
PSA testing has revolutionized our ability to diagnose, treat, and follow-up patients. The present study evaluated PSA levels in recently diagnosed prostate cancer cases in screening. PSA was estimated by enzyme immunochemical assay in 128 patients. The study concluded that early diagnosis of ...
Several conditions can lead to an elevated PSA level, not just prostate cancer.2 As men grow older, many are affected by prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate) or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) (a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate) that can...
Beyond lowering cholesterol, statin medications have been found to have numerous other health benefits, including lowering a healthy man's risk of developing advanced prostate cancer, as well as lowering his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels.