Category: Prostate
Health experts continue to recommend PSA testing for men in order to help them understand their risk of prostate cancer. Despite recent controversy over the test's effectiveness, doctors continue to insist that it is the most accurate way to screen men for prostate problems.
In fact, researchers from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York recently found that PSA testing can accurately predict a man's risk of dying from prostate cancer over the course of the next 25 years.
Andrew Vickers and his team of investigators examined medical records for PSA testing going back to 1981. They found that 90 percent of prostate cancer deaths came from men who were in the top 25 percent of PSA level.
"We were hoping to find a novel marker. What we found instead was a new way of using an old test," said Vickers. "We know that screening detects many prostate cancers that are not harmful, leading to anxiety and unnecessary treatment. It is our ability to determine the risk of the really aggressive cancers that makes this approach of such great potential value."
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