Consistent PSA Screening Results In Better Prognosis
August 18th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosisRecently, PSA or prostate-specific antigen, screening made headlines when a US Preventive Task Force recommended that men over the age 75 discontinue screening for prostate cancer.
While there is currently no definitive data regarding improvement in survival from screening for prostate cancer using the PSA test, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have now shown that men who had been screened for a longer period of time using PSA tests were less likely to have adverse features of prostate cancer at the time of diagnosis.
These results are published in the August 15, 2008 issue of Cancer.