Serum PSA levels are used to predict the prognosis of patients with prostate cancer, but assessment of the prognostic accuracy of PSA values is difficult, particularly in populations in which ...

Do you consider the cancer measurements to be small, thus making the “observation only” protocol correct? — B.A. Dear B.A.: ...

In summary, it seems that obese men with a low risk of developing prostate cancer have lower serum PSA levels than their non ... glands removed during RP does not seem to be uniform.

TWO brothers were diagnosed with prostate cancer within months of each other after a joke on a lad’s holiday prompted them to ...

A MAN suffering from a common cancer was forced to have his entire penis amputated after it spread ... prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. The normal range is between 1.0 and 1.5 ng/ml, but high ...

Cancer does not discriminate ... through screening. The main prostate cancer screening tests are a digital rectal exam, in which a doctor checks for an enlarged prostate, and a PSA test, which ...

Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize (spread ... The PSA test increases cancer detection but does ...

The NHS does not offer routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood testing for prostate cancer, but says people may be offered the test if their doctor thinks they have symptoms of the disease.

But a routine annual physical in 2014 changed everything when his doctor noticed his PSA levels were ... for people whose cancer has returned and has not spread outside the prostate.