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 ...

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Health officials will review guidance on prostate cancer following concerns that 5,000 men are undergoing needless treatment ...

PSA testing has made prostate cancer screening a reality for men in many parts of the world, but its benefit for men's health continues to be debated. In men exposed to PSA testing, there has been ...

When PSA is measured, 91% of GPs inform their patient, and 71% discuss the significance of an abnormal result. The mean age range for PSA testing was from 50 years, without an upper age limit.

Screening can also lead to over-diagnosis and over-treatment, the USPSTF says. The agency recommends against PSA-based testing for men age 70 and older.

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.

The test measures how much of a protein essential to human reproduction, PSA (prostate-specific antigen), is in your blood. The PSA's job is to turn your gelatinous pre-semen into a liquid, thus ...

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 USPSTF estimated that in the first 20 years of PSA testing, 1 million additional men were treated as a result of screening. And if the surgery is unnecessary, you don't get a refund.

PSA screening, we now know, "leads to a substantial overdiagnosis of prostate tumors." Many of these cancers grow very slowly, and men with slow-growing prostate tumors may never have symptoms.

PSA testing leads to the diagnosis of some cancers that might never have caused problems and thus would not have been diagnosed based on symptoms. This is referred to as “over-diagnosis”.