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 ...

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 ...

Elevated PSA with a negative biopsy What is the next step in the treatment of a patient who has a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level between 4 and 10 ng/mL and a negative biopsy?— Jack W. Spitzberg ...

OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oxford BioDynamics, Plc (AIM: OBD, the Company), a biotechnology company developing precision medicine tests based on the EpiSwitch ® 3D genomics platform, today ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stockholm3 blood test could have reduced unnecessary biopsies by almost half compared with PSA screening alone.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A multiparametric blood test for prostate cancer showed potential to avoid more than half of unnecessary biopsies without sacrificing accuracy, a large prospective study showed. In a ...

As PSA testing recommendations change and the debate surrounding testing continues, people with a high-risk of prostate cancer and their families need to stay informed. John Salata says he is grateful ...

A Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test is a procedure formed on men to detect prostate cancer. It is considered an effective means of cancer screening and can be used to monitor the effectiveness of ...

In a study involving more than 11,000 men enrolled in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) cancer screening trial, about one quarter of elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) results ...

For decades, it has been known that prostate specific antigen ‒ or PSA ‒ tests are a flawed way to diagnose prostate cancer. Many men have a high PSA without having cancer. Others have low PSA that ...