Biochemical recurrence is when your PSA level starts to rise after finishing prostate cancer treatment, and it may sometimes indicate metastatic disease. Biochemical recurrence is a term for when your ...
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What does a high PSA level mean?
Testing for Prostate Cancer Noncancerous Causes of a High PSA Test Result A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is one tool that doctors use to screen for prostate cancer. This small gland is located ...
Checking PSA levels too soon after prostate cancer surgery can lead to overtreatment, study suggests
After surgical removal of the prostate to treat prostate cancer, clinicians monitor prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels. Persistently elevated PSA levels indicate residual cancer and are linked to ...
Dr. Barry W. Goy explains how to interpret PSA levels after prostate cancer treatment and how to manage recurrence based on disease progression. Among patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer, ...
Prostate cancer has a well-earned reputation for being one of the more trackable malignancies in medicine. Since the mid-1980s, a single blood test measuring prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, has ...
Higher persistent PSA levels post-surgery were linked to increased mortality risk, with 8-year prostate cancer–specific mortality reaching 13.86% for a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ≥ 1 ng/mL. The ...
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