Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 75-year-old man. In February I had a urinary tract infection, and at the same time a PSA test was done. It indicated a free PSA as 31.6 percent. Since then, I have had ...

The PSA test, as few men older than 40 need to be told, is widely used as a screening tool for prostate cancer. But the test is controversial, and for good reason.

We present a new quantitative prostate-specific antigen (PSA) assay using a portable, point-of-care test (PSAwatch) and reader system (BioScan) for measuring PSA concentrations in the range from 0 ...

After his annual physical, a middle-age man is told that his PSA level has jumped to 2.3 after having been stable for years at 1.5. Should he be alarmed? Maybe and maybe not. The PSA test, as few m… ...

A high PSA level may be an indicator that prostate cancer is present in the body. Dr. Brooke Edwards said the PSA is sometimes part of routine screening tests at the doctor’s office, but not always.

If your PSA is below 4, most doctors agree that you needn't be tested again for a year. When you have another test, remember that it's normal for your reading to go up by a few tenths of a point ...

The first thing they found was that there's been a big jump in testing – the number of PSA tests per year more than doubled between 1994 and 2006, increasing on average about 6 per cent every year.

Estimates for the likelihood of prostate cancer at different levels of per cent free prostate specific antigen (PSA) were derived from experience with consecutive Japanese male patients with ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and many other experts recommend against routine PSA blood screening for prostate cancer in patients of any age. Yet many men may still wonder whether they ...