A research team from the Department of Surgery and the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of ...
THIS YEAR, IT’S estimated that nearly 300,000 new prostate cancer cases will be diagnosed. While there’s no single test to detect prostate cancer, doctors commonly use the prostate-specific antigen ...
PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen, a substance naturally produced in prostate tissue. A small amount of PSA regularly sneaks into the bloodstream, and low blood concentration is considered ...
Prostate cancer screening was revolutionized in the early 1990s with the wide spread availability and FDA approval of PSA testing. PSA however is not specific for clinically significant prostate ...
A study from HKUMed demonstrates that prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening can significantly reduce the incidence of ...
Medicare covers one annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for people with prostates if they meet the eligibility guidelines and the test is medically necessary. Medicare typically covers one ...
Current prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing “may not effectively target testing to those most likely to benefit, raising concerns about overtesting” warn researchers from the University of Oxford ...
Editor's note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine.When I learned that ...
The UK National Screening Committee has opened a 12-week public consultation on whether and how prostate cancer screening ...