A 77-year-old male with prostate cancer (PSA level of 7.45 ng/mL, Gleason score of 4+3) in the middle right region in the peripheral zone.Tsutomu TamadaNaoki KanomataTeruki SoneYoshimasa JoYoshiyuki MiyajiHiroki HigashiAkira YamamotoK...
For men 55 to 69 years old, it recommends making a joint decision with a doctor whether to undergo periodic PSA screening after discussing the risks and benefits of screening. The USPSTF recommends against prostate cancer screening for men over 70. Many other professional healthcare organizations,...
A 55-year-old Caucasian man presents to his GP with questions on a recent news article that he has read on prostate cancer screening. As he has a family history of the disease (his father and uncle were both diagnosed with the disease in their 70s), he wishes to undergo screening for ...
A 55-year-old Caucasian man presents to his GP with questions on a recent news article that he has read on prostate cancer screening. As he has a family history of the disease (his father and uncle were both diagnosed with the disease in their 70s), he wishes to undergo screening for ...
The SNP is associated with increased risk for aggressive disease and prostate cancer-specific mortality in three independent cohorts, highlighting its critical function in mediating metastasis. Carriers of this SNP allele have reduced serum total PSA and a higher free/total PSA ratio that could ...
reported that other male relatives and brothers of probands had a four- and six fold increase, respectively, of age-specific risks of BPH surgery8. In addition, twin studies report the concordance rate ratios for BPH/LUTS to range between 2.2 and 6.9 depending on the specificity of symptom ...
Researchers analyzed a large database of de-identified administrative claims from male beneficiaries aged 40-89 years who had continuous insurance coverage for at least 14 months and did not have aprostate cancer diagnosis. They evaluated PSA testing rates surrounding the April 2017 release of the ...
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and high values of fPSA always result in low probabilities of cancer no matter how high the tPSA values are). We also provided as supplementary material a spreadsheet (see supplementary Dataset) for performing straightforward predictions. For example, for an 80 years old patient, if tPSA is 9...
It is the third leading cause of male cancer deaths in Europe1,2 and second in the USA although an estimated 90% of newly diagnosed cases are local or regional with a 5-year relative survival approaching almost 100%.3 A frequently occurring genetic alteration of prostate tumors is a gene ...