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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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.

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 ...

Nice will also reconsider its stance on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests. Current guidance says GPs should only consider ...

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.

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 ...

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”.

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.