Hormone therapy initiation depends on disease extent; some agents avoid testosterone flare, allowing ADT without Casodex in certain cases. Active surveillance is increasingly chosen for favorable ...
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers that occur in men. While it can be life-threatening, the disease is treatable, and the earlier it is detected, the better the treatment outcome.
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 ...
Prostate health is vital for men over fifty as conditions like BPH, prostatitis, and cancer can affect urinary function and ...
Experts say that a blood test commonly used to screen for prostate cancer can cause more harm than good and leads healthy men to receive useless and sometimes dangerous treatments. But try telling ...
This article was reviewed by Darragh O’Carroll, MD. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a term you’ll probably become familiar with once you start getting screened regularly for prostate cancer ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: In 2022, my primary care doctor recommended that I get a PSA test. Even though I did not believe in it, he was a very caring doctor, so I had the test done. My result showed a PSA ...
It’s incredible news that all black men aged 45 to 74 will be offered to take part in prostate screening trials. There has ...
NHS advisors have again rejected pleas for potentially life-saving routine prostate cancer screening after concluding that ...
Routine PSA testing is not recommend by the USPSTF for men 70 and older, a group expected to derive little benefit. Similar to trends in the U.S., this U.K. study found that a high number of older men ...
The media frenzy surrounding former President Joe Biden’s metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis last May didn’t faze one Lancaster resident. Doctors and politicians debated whether Biden and his ...