Q: I am 77. My brother died of prostate cancer. My doctor says I don’t need PSA testing at my age. But because my brother ...
Stockholm3 blood test detected 90% of aggressive prostate cancer cases compared to 74% for PSA tests in a study of over 12,000 men in Sweden.
A large analysis suggests that a multivariable risk assessment tool, called Stockholm3, can detect substantially more ...
For many men, a prostate cancer scare starts with one number. A PSA result comes back high, and ...
THIS YEAR, IT'S estimated that nearly 300,000 new prostate cancer cases will be diagnosed. While there's no single test to detect prostate cancer, doctors commonly use the prostate-specific antigen ...
Current prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing "may not effectively target testing to those most likely to benefit, raising concerns about overtesting" warn researchers from the University of Oxford ...
PSA levels can be elevated for reasons other than cancer, such as an enlarged or inflamed prostate. False positive and false negative PSA test results are possible. The American Cancer Society does ...
The Stockholm3 model combines PSA, plasma protein biomarkers, polygenic risk, and clinical factors for prostate cancer screening.
Editor's note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine.When I learned that ...
A new study suggests the investigational Stockholm3 blood test may improve the early detection of aggressive prostate cancer ...