The Importance of Knowing Your Baseline PSA For Prostate Health
If you have been recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, then your urologist most likely provided you with a PSA score. The PSA baseline score is your prostate specific antigen at the time of your...
View ArticleTestosterone Therapy is Questionable
According to a new study published in Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DBT), taking synthetic testosterone to fight symptoms of “male menopause” is questionable. Researchers are even beginning to...
View ArticleDog Detects Prostate Cancer
At a San Francisco meeting of the American Urological Association, a team of French researchers from Tenon Hospital in Paris presented the preliminary findings of their new study – dog sniffing and...
View ArticlePomegranates and PSA Scores
Recent studies on the effects of pomegranate extract on prostate cancer have yielded mixed results. In one study, which focused on prostate-specific antigen levels, pomegranate extract slowed the PSA...
View ArticleRecent Increase in Unnecessary Prostate Biopsy
With an increase in attention given to PSA (prostate specific antigen) levels in men in the United States comes an increase in referrals for prostate biopsy. Oftentimes, these biopsies are recommended...
View ArticleNo Relationship Between Small Prostate Size and High Grade Cancer
Previously, radical prostatectomy series have shown an inverse relationship between prostate size and high grade cancer. It was suggested that smaller sized prostates arise in a low androgen...
View ArticleBrisk Walking Slows Down Prostate Cancer Progression
A recent study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Harvard School of Public Health found that an association between brisk walking and lowered risk of prostate cancer...
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