The PSA test is used to monitor men after surgery or radiation therapy for prostate cancer to see if their cancer has recurred (come back). If a man’s PSA level begins to rise after prostate cancer treatment, it...
Only the prostate gland releases PSA, so your numbers should drop to almost zero within 4 weeks after your surgery. A test result above 0.2 ng/mL a few months after your procedure could be a sign that yourprostate cancerhas come back. This is called a biochemical recurrence. If your numbe...
Cox JD, Gallagher MJ, Hammond EH, Kaplan RS, Schellhammer PF: Consensus statements on radiation therapy of prostate cancer: guidelines for prostate re-biopsy after radiation and for radiation therapy with rising prostate-specific antigen levels after radical prostatectomy. American Society for Therapeuti...
The differ- ence was large, the patient characteristics were well-balanced and the trial had sufficient numbers to ensure adequate statistical power. However, there are some caveats with the trial design to consider and discuss. The first caveat was the relatively short, 6 months, duration of ...
Given that the cells were present before initiation of interstitial brachytherapy suggests that the tumour was possibly suppressing the cytotoxic activity of the cells and this suppression was reduced or eliminated after significant tumour cytoreduction from the radiation. The model would suggest that the...
Prostate cancer: USPSTF screening recommendation could lead to greater numbers of avoidable deaths. Nat. Rev. Urol. 11, 481 (2014). Article PubMed Google Scholar Lefevre, M. PSA screening: the USPSTF got it right. J. Fam. Pract. 62, 617, 619 (2013). PubMed Google Scholar Ablin, ...
A rising PSA after the initial treatment was defined as PSA rising from unmeasurable PSA levels and increasing in at least two PSA determinations carried out at more than a one-week interval. The center did not use a lower and an upper limit for the prescan PSA. ...
Patients with localized PC are treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) or radiation therapy (RT), or with RP and RT combined with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). After initial treatment, up to half of patients develop a recurrence. First, the recurrent patients have rising prostate specific ...
Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the optimal cut-off value of prostate specific antigen (PSA) to assess the extent of the disease in [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT study in patients after radical prostatectomy. Materials and Methods: Retrospective analysis was performed on a ...