Summary
In a bid to improve prostate-cancer detection rates, doctors around the country are changing the way they screen and test for the disease.
The changes center around the PSA test, a simple blood test that looks for high levels of an enzyme called prostate specific antigen, a potential warning sign of cancer. Some doctors are changing the way they interpret the PSA test in hopes of finding more hidden cancers, particularly in men younger than 60. Others are switching to a different version of the test and studying new tests that may do a better of job of measuring PSA.See the full content of this document
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Prostate Cancer Tests Changing
But some of the changes might be confusing for men who are accustomed to regular PSA screening. For years, men have been told that a PSA number below 4 is nothing to worry about. But a study last summer in the New England Journal of Medicine has triggered a w...
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