Dear Dr. Roach: I’m 77 and have an enlarged prostate. My PSA score has been between 5.2 and 5.9 ng/mL for years. Recently, my internist had me take a PSA test, and it was 9.5 ng/mL. Two weeks later, ...
Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 74-year-old man in relatively good health. The only prescribed medication I take is 5 mg of amlodipine daily. My issue is my PSA score. In 2004, I had a UTI, and the urologist ...
Higher PsAID-12 scores were linked to increased treatment escalation, but physicians reported minimal influence on their decisions. Physician-assessed disease activity had a more significant impact on ...
Saliva test which analyses genetic variants in DNA is better than the PSA blood test at assessing prostate cancer risk for some men, and doesn’t require a visit to the GP The test gave fewer false ...