Tag: prostate Cancer Screening

  • Lowering PSA and PSA velocity: Are we doing the best thing

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  • Quality of life after a negative biopsy

    UroToday – “False-Positive” Prostate Cancer Screenings Assessed “Men can discuss the pros and cons of getting a PSA test with their doctors. However, once a man decides to go ahead and get a PSA test, if its results are abnormal, he typically should have ongoing follow-up and surveillance for prostate cancer,” Katz said. Katz said…

  • What is a normal PSA?

    Age Adjustment of PSA Measures Might Improve Prostate Cancer Screening: Source (Medscape) The team concludes that standard PSA and PSA velocity cutoff points could be decreased to 2.0 ng/ml and 0.40 ng/ml per year in order to improve cancer detection in these younger men. The author of an editorial comment, Dr. H. Ballentine Carter of…

  • Evidence based medicine and prostate cancer screening

    Evidence based medicine involves a practitioner using the best available clinical studies and their clinical judgement. There have been several websites that have helped assimilate all the available information and give a conclusion in easy to read format for physicians and patients alike. The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organisation, providing up-to-date information about…

  • New “normal” PSA velocity

    PSA screening has led to the earlier diagnosis of prostate cancer in many men.  Most urologists feel that this will lead to less prostate cancer mortality in the future. What is considered to be a normal value of PSA has changed over the years.  A PSA of 4 is too high for men that are less than…