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How is PSA used to monitor prostate cancer?

Editor's note: second of two parts; read part one here.. In the first part of our series, we described how PSA is used as a screening tool to help detect prostate cancer in men who don't have symptoms ...
Early-stage prostate cancer rarely causes symptoms, making routine screening the most reliable way to catch it before it ...
Hormone therapy initiation depends on disease extent; some agents avoid testosterone flare, allowing ADT without Casodex in certain cases. Active surveillance is increasingly chosen for favorable ...
Achieving a PSA nadir of less than 0.2 ng/mL is needed for optimal mCSPC outcomes. For real-world patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC), reaching a PSA nadir less than ...
Historically, treatment for metastatic prostate cancer relied heavily on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) alone. Over time, ...
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men. About 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, and the risk varies depending on age and race.
Higher PsAID-12 scores were linked to increased treatment escalation, but physicians reported minimal influence on their decisions. Physician-assessed disease activity had a more significant impact on ...
To evaluate pregnancy outcomes in relation to antirheumatic treatment before and during pregnancy as a proxy of disease severity in PsA-pregnancies as compared to non-PsA-pregnancies. Swedish ...
The National Health Fund (NHF) has expanded its NHFCard programme to include four additional chronic conditions and increased ...