are aged 50 and over and have asked your GP for a test Doctors also check your PSA level as you go through prostate cancer treatment. It can help them see how well treatment is working. Prostate ...

I’m an outlier in the world of medicine. My PSA level was only 4.0 when I was diagnosed at age 59 with prostate cancer. According to much of the information you’ll find on the Internet, that’s not a ...

The most common screening test for prostate cancer so often returns a false positive result that it's no longer recommended for men older than 70, and it's offered as a personal choice for younger men ...

For decades, it has been known that prostate specific antigen ‒ or PSA ‒ tests are a flawed way to diagnose prostate cancer. Many men have a high PSA without having cancer. Others have low PSA that ...

The concept of normal becomes a bit less unwieldy when considered in context. In point of fact, to define “‘normal’ requires a context,” says Robert G. Uzzo, MD, FACS, chairman of the Department of ...

While a PSA of 12.9 ng/ml does raise concern, it does not automatically mean cancer, noted Dr Saraf. “The risk depends on age ...

A new blood test for prostate cancer that offers greater accuracy than prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has been put to the test by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in collaboration ...

A new blood test developed by scientists and clinicians is able to detect the presence of prostate cancer and confirm how advanced it is. A team at Nottingham Trent University and University Hospitals ...

The Stockholm3 blood test is equally effective at detecting prostate cancer in different ethnic groups, a new paper reports. The test produces significantly better results than the current PSA ...

Background A 58-year-old man, without any personal or familial risk factors for prostate cancer, visited his primary care physician for a first routine prostate cancer screening with a serum PSA test.