Investigators sought to determine the effect of “Smart PSA” guidelines on screening behavior and biopsy outcomes among Black men.

It’s important to follow guidance on prostate-specific antigen screening that maximizes benefits and minimizes potential harms such as overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

This article was reviewed by Darragh O’Carroll, MD. PSA and Testosterone: Are They Linked? Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a term you’ll probably become familiar with once you start getting ...

Fear of discomfort and unnecessary treatment often deters patients from prostate cancer screening, despite the benefits of early detection. Prostate cancer can be asymptomatic, making early detection ...

For the third year in a row, Cleveland Diagnostics is commemorating September’s Prostate Cancer Awareness Month with its “A PSA on PSA” campaign, which serves as a public service announcement about ...

Staging means finding out how far prostate cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group prostate cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being ...

Opportunistic prostate cancer screening can lead to overdiagnosis of indolent diseases and invasive procedures. A cohort study suggested that a low baseline PSA level in midlife was associated with a ...

Wolinsky is a Chicago-based medical journalist and publisher of The Active Surveillor, a Substack newsletter that covers lower-risk prostate cancer and active surveillance. In 2002, at age 55, I ...

In a population-based cohort study, a single prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurement in men aged 45-70 years effectively identified individuals with low risk for cancer. Men with PSA levels < 1.00 ...