The magnitude of the reduction in prostate cancer deaths from population-based PSA screening is too small for a clinical and public health benefit. PSA screening of the general male population ...
PSA clearance after BPE surgery follows a rapid, predictable pattern. Learn how TURP and OSP impact PSA levels and clinical ...
The understanding of prostate cancer has significantly evolved in the past 15 years. Therefore, many people — including primary care providers — may not be aware of the current guidelines for prostate ...
Prostate-cancer screening based on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in the blood was introduced—and readily adopted—in the United States around the late 1980s. But this screening method, in ...
A single round of prostate cancer screening that included a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, a kallikrein panel, and an MRI detected one additional high-grade cancer per 196 men and one low-grade ...
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What is a PSA test and how is it used?

In this two-part series, we'll describe the PSA test-- how it's used, and how doctors perform next steps in the event of an ...
An ultrasound-based treatment for prostate cancer showed better safety and operative metrics versus robotic radical ...
This is a large-scale, population-based, observational study of two screening strategies: annual PSA screening and no screening. We used data from 537,599 US Medicare (2001-2008) beneficiaries age ...
Credit: Getty Images Investigators compared radical prostatectomy outcomes before and after the USPSTF downgraded PSA screening. Reducing PSA-based screening appears to have contributed to delayed ...
Early-stage prostate cancer rarely causes symptoms, making routine screening the most reliable way to catch it before it ...