An increase of more than 0.75 ng/mL has also been considered as a cutoff to begin a more thorough workup. However, the PSA ...

Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a type of protein released by the prostate gland. Screening for possible prostate cancer involves taking a PSA blood test, which is recommended annually starting at ...

In this two-part series, we'll describe the PSA test -- how it's used, and how doctors perform next steps in the event of an abnormal reading. Our first post addresses PSA screening for prostate ...

When the PSA level rises after radiation treatment for prostate cancer, there could be some prostate cancer cells that survived treatment and are growing. The usual threshold to be concerned about is ...

Despite prostate cancer being the most common form of cancer for UK men, there continues to be a worrying lack of understanding around both symptoms and screening. These days, a prostate-specific ...

Stage 2 prostate cancer is considered localized, meaning the cancer is still confined entirely within the prostate gland and has not spread to nearby lymph nodes (node 0 or N0) or distant parts of the ...

Watching changes in men's PSA blood tests may be the best way of predicting which men have life-threatening prostate cancer, U.S. researchers said yesterday. The study, published in the Journal of the ...

As part of its Speaking Out video series, CURE talked to Dr. Brian Keith McNeil, on behalf of ZERO Prostate Cancer, about the role of PSMA-PET Imaging versus PSA. Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a ...

As prostate cancer cases rise in India, routine PSA tests are leading to anxiety. Doctors emphasise that not every elevated ...

When the Ontario government tabled its 2008 budget, it set aside money to pay for a test that helps in the early diagnosis of prostate cancer. Ontario becomes the seventh province to pay for the ...