Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 74-year-old man. I have not had physical exams regularly until recently. I took a pre-op exam for cataract surgery, and one of the numbers noted was for PSA. It was 6.1. I have no prostate gland symptoms other than an occasional slow urinary stream.Dr. ...
It is noteworthy that these symptoms, by themselves, do not confirm or necessarily reflect the presence of prostate cancer in any single individual. Indeed, most, if not all of these can occur in men with noncancerous (benign) enlargement of the prostate (BPH), which is the more common fo...
Prostate cancer often has no symptoms. It is often discovered after screening with a lab test called prostate specific antigen (PSA). Occasionally, prostate cancer can cause obstruction of urine flow, like BPH. This symptom usually suggests more advanced prostate cancer. How Can I Prevent Prostate...
It’s well known that the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test used to screen for prostate cancer is imprecise. Elevations in PSA levels may signalprostate cancer, but they also may be due to nonmalignant prostate conditions. Further complicating the screening process is that several medicatio...
Screening programs may also prevent approximately 3 cases of metastatic prostate cancer per 1000 men screened. Potential harms of screening include frequent false-positive results and psychological harms. Harms of prostate cancer treatment include erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, and bowel symptoms...
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“. One man is a professional who still goes to work every day. I have been seeing him for about 5 years; he has metastatic cancer in many bones and lymph nodes, a PSA in the 100’s, yet other than being a bit too thin, carries on with his life helping other people in his ...
We were concerned about the possibility that the observed inverse relationships were due to avoidance of ejaculation among men with early symptoms related to prostate cancer. However, diminished ejaculation frequency as a preclinical consequence of prostate cancer would be expected to be more pronounced ...
(age, family history of prostate cancer and any cancer), clinical (PSA level, lower urinary tract symptoms: frequency, urgency, incontinence, nocturia, hesitancy and interference with everyday life) and psychological (baseline POMS anxiety and IES avoidance and intrusion subscale scores). Univariable...