There is a general consensus among clinicians that a serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level ≥4.0 ng/ml is predictive of prostate cancer, and necessitates a biopsy. But there is a dearth of ...

The article by Thompson et al. has caused significant uproar with regard to the utility of PSA for detecting prostate cancer. A few comments and cautions are warranted. We have long suspected that ...

A BREAKTHROUGH in prostate cancer diagnosis has emerged with the development of an interpretable machine learning model that reduces the need for invasive biopsies in patients with PSA levels below 20 ...

Chinnapong – stock.adobe.com Most prostate cancer tumors, however, are low-grade and “never spread” — and the PSA screening “does not differentiate between aggressive or non-aggressive ...

These may be signs your cancer has spread to your spine or your liver, respectively. If your prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels continue to rise despite treatment, especially if they are rising ...

Cases of prostate cancer are on the rise in California, according to new research. A study by UC San Francisco (UCSF) included nearly 388,000 men who had prostate cancer between 2004 and 2021.

Giles Coren has been diagnosed with prostate cancer (Jonathan Brady/PA) Restaurant critic and journalist Giles Coren has announced his diagnosis with prostate cancer. Writing in his column for The ...

PSA is a protein produced by normal cells in the prostate, but also by prostate cancer cells. It’s normal to have a small amount of PSA in your blood, and as you get older and your prostate gets ...

With my PSA as high as it is, I suspect that another PSMA PET scan would finally reveal some useful information that we can use to plan treatment options. This post originally appeared January 18, ...

A diet high in omega-3 fatty acids and low in omega-6 fatty acids, taken with fish oil, reduced the Ki-67 index in men with prostate cancer on active surveillance. From the death of folk music star ...

Initially approved to monitor disease progression in the 1980s and cancer screening in the late 1990s, the PSA test is a simple blood test that can indicate prostate problems when levels are elevated.