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How is PSA used to monitor prostate cancer?

Editor's note: second of two parts; read part one here.. In the first part of our series, we described how PSA is used as a screening tool to help detect prostate cancer in men who don't have symptoms ...
Prostate cancer screening compares favorably to screening for breast cancer in identifying significant cancers, reducing ...
We’re prostate cancer experts. Here are the benefits of quick and targeted MRI scans - Urologists, radiologists and pathologists from Europe and the US agreed an “expert consensus statement” on prosta ...
PSA levels can be elevated for reasons other than cancer, such as an enlarged or inflamed prostate. False positive and false negative PSA test results are possible. The American Cancer Society does ...
Former prime minister Rishi Sunak has told the BBC that a targeted prostate cancer screening programme is needed urgently, and would "save countless lives". Sunak is an ambassador for the Prostate ...
Prostate cancer kills more than 12,000 men a year in the UK, slightly more than the number of women who die from breast ...
Rishi Sunak has urged men to be checked for prostate cancer as part of a new screening drive. The former prime minister has given his backing to an initiative run by the charity P ...
The analysis – reported at the European Association of Urology (EAU) annual congress in London, UK – shows that it is "no longer rational to reject prostate cancer screening on one hand while ...
Decades ago, doctors created a test to determine which breast cancer patients should receive hormone therapy. Now, researchers are using the same tactics to advance prostate cancer treatment. A recent ...
About 1 in 8 men will learn they have prostate cancer at some point in their lifetime. And while most of those who are diagnosed will survive, prostate cancer can be serious. It's the second-leading ...