Dear Dr. Roach: My age is 73, and I’ve had a steadily increasing PSA level for many years. In 2020, the result was 11.8 ng/mL, and it has risen to 17-18 ng/mL, where it has stayed for the past year.

ATLANTA - Each year, millions of American men get a blood test known as a PSA, or prostate-specific antigen, test as part of their yearly checkup. PSA is a protein produced by the prostate gland. If a ...

High pre-treatment PSA levels correlate with increased recurrence and treatment failure in intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients treated with HIFU. Gleason grade 3 or higher is associated with ...

THIS YEAR, IT’S estimated that nearly 300,000 new prostate cancer cases will be diagnosed. While there’s no single test to detect prostate cancer, doctors commonly use the prostate-specific antigen ...

A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is a blood test that measures a protein released in the blood by prostate cells. Both normal and cancerous prostate cells release the protein. Most of the time, ...

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a protein made by the prostate gland. A high PSA level could be a sign of an enlarged prostate, inflammation called prostatitis, or prostate cancer. The PSA test ...

Study finds that prostate cancer patients with PSA levels of 50 ng/mL or higher prior to radical prostatectomy have a 20-year cancer-specific mortality rate of 20.5%. Men with prostate cancer (PCa) ...

Prostate cancer (PCa) patients with PSA levels above 20 ng/mL are not necessarily at high risk for negative outcomes such as prostate cancer-specific mortality (PCSM), but a higher number of risk ...

A research team from the Department of Surgery and the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At any given PSA level, Black men are more likely than white men to harbor prostate cancer, according to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - On average, men's levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) decrease as their body mass index (BMI) rises, a new study shows. PSA is a marker for prostate cancer risk when ...