The nadir serum PSA level after radiotherapy is a good predictor of patient outcome; however, this value might not occur for several years. Alcántara and colleagues investigated whether the ...

Information obtained from serial PSA values in the form of a PSA velocity (i.e., the change in PSA level during the year prior to diagnosis) has been shown to be significantly associated with ...

PSA density is more accurate than routine PSA alone for predicting prostate cancer, if the PSA value is elevated above 4 ng/ml and less than 20 ng/ml. PSA density is calculated by dividing the ...

For comparison, PSA has a P/B of 9.73. Based on these metrics and many more, OUT holds a Value grade of B, while PSA has a Value grade of D.

The prognostic significance of the 5-year PSA value demonstrated that a value of 0.2 ng/ml or less was found to correspond to a 10-year freedom from failure rate of 99% when the ASTRO definition ...

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Men who have a baseline PSA value of 10 or higher the first time they are tested are up to 11 times more likely to die from prostate cancer than are men with lower initial values, according to ...