A PSA test measures your blood level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a protein that your prostate gland produces, to help screen for prostate cancer.

John Taylor, 69, from the Lake District, went to his GP twice complaining about needing to pass urine more than normal, but he was denied a PSA blood test. It was only at an annual check-up that ...

The PSA test is a simple, inexpensive blood test, administered by a primary care or family practice doctor to measure the level of a substance called prostate-specific antigen (PSA), which is ...

The PSA test for prostate cancer is surprisingly controversial. Many experts, in fact, now recommend against the test for most men, saying that the cancers it detects are often relatively harmless ...

The PHI test, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2012, uses a different scale than the PSA test. If your PHI score is below 27, there’s only about a 10% chance that you have ...

The test: PSA stands for “prostate-specific antigen,” a protein released by the prostate gland. Changes in this protein are a proven early warning sign of prostate cancer, which kills more ...

When testing for prostate cancer, as many as 75% of men with a raised prostate-specific antigen (PSA) have a benign biopsy result. Little is known about the psychological effect of this result for ...

A PSA test is ordered to screen for prostate cancer. In a draft recommendation, experts say the test’s benefits for men ages 55 to 69 are balanced by the harms.

Middle-aged men know the story: the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test is an essential early-warning system for cancer. Elevated PSA levels mean cancer, which in turn means you should probably ma… ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of prostate cancer in patients who have an elevated referral prostate-specific antigen (PSA), which subsequently falls to within their ...

New York, N.Y., May 28, 2003 – A PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood test is part of routine prostate cancer screening for most men over 50. If the test result shows a moderately elevated PSA ...