A PSA test can screen for prostate cancer or show how well treatment worked. Find out when you'll have this test, and what your results could mean.
This is one reality that everyone of us need to know and accept –cure may be unnecessary, or cure may not be possible.I am reminded of a friend, Steve – a British engineer who chose to settle down in Bangkok. He too had prostate cancer. He went to Singapore and was put on Intermi...
WebMD's slideshow covers prostate cancer: who's at risk, symptoms, tests, staging, treatments, survival, and foods that may help lower your risk for prostate cancer.
being tested for prostate cancer overall. For example: ‘I tried not to think about the PSA blood test’ (time-point 1); ‘I tried not to think about going for my biopsy’ (time-point 2); ‘I tried not to think about getting my biopsy results’ (time-point 3) and ‘I tried not...
Conclusions: These findings provide evidence that strategies combining the blood-based Stockholm3 test and MRI-targeted biopsies can be used to inform biopsy decision making. Patient summary: In this study, 532 men coming for prostate cancer workup underwent blood sampling, and both traditional and ...
Prostate Test Found to Save Few Lives The PSA blood test, used to screen for prostate cancer, saves few lives and leads to risky and unnecessary treatments for large numbers of men, two large s... G Kolata 被引量: 4发表: 2009年 Testing Whether Cancer Screening Saves Lives: Implications ...
Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC), a highly aggressive variant of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), often emerges upon treatment with androgen pathway inhibitors, via neuroendocrine differentiation. Currently, NEPC diagnosis is challenging
renal and liver diseases) in blood and urine samples from every participant in the cohort. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate a wide range of biomarkers, including biomarkers that have not previously been studied in relation to prostate cancer risk. We report here the first results...
PCGEM1 is a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) that is often upregulated in prostate cancer. However, little is known how PCGEM1 is regulated. In the present study, we show transcriptional regulation of PCGEM1 in response to androgen deprivation by p54/nrb. While ectopic expression of p54/nrb ...
prostate through the rectal wall and find any lumps or other abnormalities that might indicate cancer. If you decide to be screened, ask for both tests, because that combination is least likely to miss cancer. DRE is usually done after your blood test to prevent falsely raising PSA from ...