Primary care providers ordering more PSA tests
U.S. primary care providers ordered twice as many office-based prostate-specific antigen tests in 2008 as they did in 1997.
U.S. primary care providers ordered twice as many office-based prostate-specific antigen tests in 2008 as they did in 1997.
A new study shows that a family history of other cancers in first-degree relatives may increase a patient’s risk for prostate cancer, according to findings presented at the American Urological Association 2011 Annual Meeting.
As a side effect of radical prostatectomy, the favored treatment for many, erectile dysfunction can affect a man’s mental and physical quality of life.
Can you tell me definitively whether the PSA-lowering effect of alpha blockers is similar to that of finasteride?
When a clinician fails to order a repeat PSA test for a patient with suspected prostatitis, legal issues arise.
There is no statistical relationship between serum testosterone levels and risk of prostate cancer.
The American Urological Association and the American Cancer Society disagree over when baseline screening should begin.
Men should be made aware of the possible harms of prostate cancer screening as well as the benefits, but many don’t appear to be getting that information from their clinician.
What is the next step in the treatment of a patient who has a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level between 4 and 10 ng/mL and a negative biopsy?
Is all prostate cancer testosterone receptor-positive?—Mike Hutchins, MD, Missoula, Mont. Yes, all prostate cells have androgen receptors. This is the reason prostate cancer will respond to androgen deprivation. What has puzzled urologists for more than 50 years now is the mechanism of resistance to androgen ablation. Much attention has focused on the androgen receptor as…