, researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and colleagues suggest that biopsy should not be performed until the test is repeated, because PSA levels experience common fluctuations.The study followed nearly one thousand men over four years, with results from five consecutive PSA tests. ...
Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, which NCI conducted to determine whether certain screening tests can help reduce the numbers of deaths from several common cancers. In the prostate portion of th...
Prof Dmitry Pshezhetskiy, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: "Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and kills one man every 45 minutes in the UK. "There is currently no single test for prostate cancer, but PSA blood tests are among the most used, alongside physical exam...
PSA testingis used to identify theearly stagesof prostate cancer. It is currently one of the few widely used tests for prostate cancer available. The other examination used to detect this cancer is a digital rectal examination (DRE), in which a doctor inserts a gloved finger into therectum(...
if he decides to be tested./p pConclusion/p pThis study indicates that PSA testing in asymptomatic men is a regular occurrence in the UK, and that there is general support from GPs for the current policy of making PSA tests available to informed men who are concerned about prostate cancer...
PSA blood tests for prostate cancer should start earlier in life Date: Thursday, 2-Nov-2006 A study has found that measuring prostate specific antigen (PSA) in the blood may be the best way of identifying men with life-threatening prostate cancer. The PSA test is used to screen for prostat...
The PSA test has saved many lives due to early diagnosis of prostate cancer, the second leading cancer-related cause of death in men. Guidelines for when to give PSA tests are subject to debate, but general advice is that anyone considering a PSA test should know all the benefits, limitatio...
A PSA test looks for levels of prostate-specific antigen in the blood, and high levels have been thought to signal prostate cancer. The Task Force's final recommendation shouldn't come as a surprise to those who have been following the controversy surrounding PSA tests since the ...
Sometimes, prostate cancer can be cured. Even when it's not, it can be controlled for years and even decades. Keep up with your monitoring tests, including the PSA doubling time, is a key component of staying well in the long term. ...
Targeting tests for prostate cancer at the men most likely to develop the disease could halve the number needed to be screened, reduce overdiagnosis, and potentially save the NHS millions of pounds, suggests research. With funding from Cancer Research UK, researchers from London and Cambridge ...