Using absolute prostate-specific antigen (PSA) thresholds to make decisions about diagnostic testing and biopsies remains controversial (Journal Watch Top Story Dec 31 2004), but PSA velocity (the ...

Guidelines of several cancer organizations have recommended that men with a rapid rise in PSA have a biopsy for prostate cancer, even if there is no other indication and the PSA is within the "normal" ...

Some studies have suggested that the rate of change of prostate-specific antigen levels may correspond with prostate cancer survival. But this does not necessarily mean that PSA velocity will be ...

We need better ways to determine which prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-detected localized prostate cancers are most likely to progress. The rate at which the PSA level rises (i.e., PSA velocity) prior ...

We conducted a systematic review of studies published before March 2007 in which a PSA dynamic (velocity or doubling time) was calculated in patients before definitive treatment, a subsequent event ...

The most significant single predictor of aggressive prostate cancer is an elevated rate of increase in prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels, according to a new study. The most significant single ...

Serum PSA values >4.0 ng/ml are routinely used to select patients for prostate biopsy, although this approach misses some early-stage cancers. Some researchers advocate dropping the PSA threshold to 2 ...

Cancer organizations commonly recommend prostate biopsies for men who have experienced a rapid rise in PSA levels. But according to findings from a San Antonio study published Feb. 24 in the Journal ...

Prostate cancer screening in the PSA era is controversial and the most appropriate measures for diagnosis are widely debated. Vickers and colleagues recently suggested that using PSA velocity in ...

Arnhem, November 2009 – The November issue of European Urology, the official journal of the European Association of Urology, features an article focussing on prostate specific antigen (PSA) velocity ...

Guidelines of several cancer organizations have recommended that men with a rapid rise in PSA have a biopsy for prostate cancer, even if there is no other indication and the PSA is within the "normal" ...