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For example, if you are aged between 40-49, a PSA reading of more than 2.5ng/ml may be considered high, while if you are over 70, it would have to be more than 6.5ng/ml.
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Doctors, therefore, double-check high PSA levels with a biopsy. If cancer is found, about 20% of cases will need aggressive treatment, says Naser Turabi of Cancer Research UK, a charity.
IF YOUR TEST shows high PSA levels, doctors may recheck your blood or do a urine test to check for an infection that might be causing the elevation, Dr. Eilber says.
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IF YOUR TEST shows high PSA levels, doctors may recheck your blood or do a urine test to check for an infection that might be causing the elevation, Dr. Eilber says.
A team around first author Agne Krilaviciute has now calculated that only 0.45 percent of these men (64 participants) had high PSA levels (over 3 ng/ml) and were referred for MRI and biopsy.
The 151 participants with high-grade prostate cancer had operating curve values ranging from 0.60 for PSA alone to 0.77 for PHI and 0.76 for a two-gene multiplex model.