What is Normal PSA Level

What is a Normal PSA?

What is a Normal PSA?
How should PSA test results be interpreted? Many factors should be considered, including PSA velocity, PSA density, and age. Find out if your score is cause for alarm.

What is a PSA Test?
This test is performed to detect the presence of PSA. The PSA level is elevated in men with BPH and prostate cancer. Other inflammatory diseases, such as prostatitis, may also increase the PSA level.
PSA Test Accuracy
Although PSA Tests usually identify prostate cancer accurately, false positives and false negatives may occur. Learn how often test results may be incorrect.
Who Should Get a PSA Test?
At what age should you first get screened for prostate cancer? Find out when to begin PSA testing, and how factors such as ethnicity and family history should be taken into account.
Normal PSA Values
Normal values vary with age. Older men typically have slightly higher PSA measurements than younger men...
PSA Test Risks
Find out what risks may be associated with having a PSA test performed are.

PSA testing: What should men do?
Two conflicting studies on the benefit of PSA tests have come out this week, leaving many patients and experts wondering about the best course of action.
Experts back away from annual PSA test
Men should have a 'baseline' prostate cancer screen at 40, but yearly PSA may not be necessary, guidelines say.
Obesity may interfere with prostate cancer blood test
Obese men have lower levels of PSA, the substance that a test that screens for prostate cancer is designed to measure.
Study: Painkillers may mask prostate cancer
Men who take daily doses of aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have significantly lower levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a new study suggests.
Avodart found to reduce prostate risk
A large clinical trial has found that the drug Avodart reduces the risk of prostate cancer.