We analyze one of the most extensive data sets currently available for longitudinal PSA readings, obtained by an historical prospective study of frozen serum samples from the Nutritional Prevention of Cancer Trial (Clark et al. 1996). These data consist of serial readings for over 1200 men taken...
In my case, my local urologist called in April of 2012 with the news that my prostate biopsy showed cancer. Gleason score was 3+4 for a total of 7. PSA was 9. (Current PSA is 0.37) The decision for treatment was easy. My brother-in-law owner of this blog, Jim Tuggey, had gone...
Prostate cancer is a very prevalent disease in men. Patients are monitored regularly during and after treatment with repeated assessment of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels. Prognosis of localised prostate cancer is generally good after treatment, and the risk of having a recurrence is usually ...
In February 2013, I have posted a similar case,Prostate-Bone Cancer– Part 1: PSA Came Tumbling Down: From 6,963 to 200 and Severe Pains Vanished.This is the story of a 72-year-old man from Surabaya, Indonesia. His prostate cancer had spread extensively to his back bone. I have the ...
range from below 4 ng/ml to above 10. Elevated PSA levels between 4 and 10 are considered borderline high, and high PSA level above 10 is a strong indication that cancer is present. The higher the prostate PSA count & readings, the more likely that you're dealing with prostate cancer. ...
Further complicating the screening process is that several medications and a number of other modifiable factors may alter the results of thePSA lab test, leading to inaccurate readings that may overestimate or underestimate your risk of having prostate cancer found on a biopsy. ...
- Use past PSA readings to determine how often follow-up tests are needed and to guide conversations about treatment. Cancer experts have been having second thoughts in recent years about the value of regular screening to detect certain types of cancer in its early stages. Last year, a governm...
Obesity favours the occurrence of locally disseminated prostate cancer in the periprostatic adipose tissue (PPAT) surrounding the prostate gland. Here we show that adipocytes from PPAT support the directed migration of prostate cancer cells and that this
Additionally, 15 benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) samples from 13 patients who underwent TURP without known presence of prostate cancer, and 14 prostate Bx cores, were collected between April 2006 and February 2009 from 14 patients with elevated PSA readings, but no evidence of prostate cancer ...
atients with positive Ga 68 PSMA-11 PET readings who had correlative tissue pathology from biopsies, who also had results from baseline or follow-up imaging by conventional methods, and serial PSA levels available for comparison, also had local recurrence or metastasis of prostate cancer confirmed....