Someone once told me that if you order enough lab tests on a patient, you'll find something. Not necessarily something you wanted to find, not necessarily something that matters clinically to the ...
Prostate cancer, a prevalent male cancer, can be detected early through a simple PSA blood test, significantly reducing mortality. This screening tool ...
John Taylor, 69, was denied a PSA blood test despite repeated urinary symptoms - Paul Cooper I didn’t know anything about prostate cancer when I first went to the doctor’s. I’d started noticing that I ...
As a health educator, Jesse Bennett was familiar with lab readings. All of his professional life, he has known the importance of annual blood screenings to check the health of his heart, lungs and ...
Men with BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations should be given annual prostate cancer screening checks, leading scientists have said. Experts at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London said men with ...
Contrary to recommendations regarding age and PSA screening, over the course of nearly two decades the highest PSA testing rates occurred in men 70 and above, a group considered least likely to ...
Men with genes that increase the risk of prostate cancer should have annual checks from the age of 40, research has shown.
Among patients with psoriatic arthritis, high disease activity and multimorbidity were more common among women and individuals living in the South and Midwest. Geographic region, race, gender, and ...
On-treatment PSA and disease burden should be considered together for prognostication. Achieving PSA ≤0.2 ng/mL within 6–12 weeks strongly predicts favorable long-term survival. Metastatic volume and ...