Checking PSA levels too soon after prostate cancer surgery can lead to overtreatment, study suggests

After surgical removal of the prostate to treat prostate cancer, clinicians monitor prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels.
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Prostate cancer screening: Should men get tested? And when? Here's what to know

PSA levels can be elevated for reasons other than cancer, such as an enlarged or inflamed prostate. False positive and false negative PSA test results are possible. The American Cancer Society does ...
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Given Biden’s diagnosis, what a urologist wants you to know about prostate screening

Editor's note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine.When I learned that ...

Study confirms high cost effectiveness of prostate cancer screening

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

Easy-to-use tool can identify high- and low-risk metastatic prostate cancer patients earlier

A new study published in Nature Communications provides a framework for researching whether earlier, model-guided treatment ...