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Test For Prostate Cancer
- Prostate Cancer - Tests to Determine Severity of Cancer
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Treatment choices are generally based on the patient's age, the stage and grade of the cancer, overall health status, and the patient's personal preferences for the risks and benefits of each therapy.
Patients should be aware that doctors may be biased to prefer a specific treatment depending on their specialty, with urologists and medical oncologists tending to recommend watchful waiting, surgery, or hormone therapy and radiation oncologists recommending radiation therapy. It is always...
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From Our Experts
The Great PSA Debate!!
In a recent Op-Ed in the NY Times, a non-clinician PhD, announces another fix to the health care crisis. Lets do away with PSA testing... Read more »
Have the Rules for PSA Testing Changed?
A series of studies were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine that question the efficacy of widespread PSA testing for... Read more »
Prostate Cancer Symptoms, Tests, and Treatments
My father's case of prostate cancer was discovered by chance: he exhibited no initial symptoms. This is fairly typical in older men, since... Read more »
Is It Possible to Perform a Prostate Self Exam?
Dear Dr. Motola, Is is possible to perform a self exam of the prostate and if so, how can it be done? It is possible to perform a... Read more »
Watchful Waiting for Prostate Cancer
There are many options to treat prostate cancer. These include radical surgery, seed implantation (brachytherapy), external beam radiation... Read more »
From Our Sources
PSA Testing and Screening for Prostate Cancer: When to Start
At What Age Should I Start Getting PSA Tests?The age at which one should first have a prostate cancer screening has been debated. The... Read more »
New urine test may ID aggressive prostate cancer
Methods currently used to ID the aggressiveness of prostate cancer can find false positives, but researchers say a new urine test may change that.... Read more »
Painkillers, Statins May Distort Prostate Cancer Test Results ...
Men who regularly take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to control pain or statins to treat high cholesterol may not get accurate ... Read more »
Obesity may interfere with prostate cancer blood test
Blood tests that screen for prostate cancer may not be able to accurately diagnose the disease in obese men, new studies show. Obese men have lower... Read more »
PSA Test Accuracy
Several statistical terms are important to understand when trying to make sense of who should have their PSA tested or their prostate biopsied. The... Read more »
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