
Treatment if your prostate cancer comes back
PSA levels are usually extremely low (below the normal range) about a month after surgery. You may hear your doctor saying that your PSA level is undetectable. Your doctor will monitor your …
What is the PSA test? - Cancer Research UK
Understanding your PSA test results. PSA is usually measured in nanograms per millilitre of blood (ng/ml). There is no single PSA reading that is considered normal. The reading varies from …
Grade Groups for prostate cancer | Cancer Research UK
It can't tell you exactly what is going to happen in the future, but it gives you an idea about the differences in survival between the different treatment options. The tool works less well for …
Active surveillance and watchful waiting for prostate cancer
prostate examination at 12 months. You may not need this if you are having an MRI scan; type of MRI scan called multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) at 12 months; This is what may happen in year …
Small cell prostate cancer - Cancer Research UK
These types of cells don’t make prostate specific antigen (PSA). So the PSA level in men with small cell prostate cancer is often normal, or only slightly higher than normal. This is different …
Tests for prostate cancer - Cancer Research UK
PSA blood test. The PSA test measures the amount of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in your blood. PSA it’s a protein made by both normal and cancerous prostate cells. It’s normal for all …
What is hormone therapy? | Prostate cancer - Cancer Research UK
While the hormone therapy is working, the level of PSA should stay stable or may go down. But if prostate cancer starts to grow and develop, the level of PSA may go up. This is usually called …
Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Testing - Cancer Research UK
However, elevated PSA levels could also be due to several factors that do not indicate cancer for example age or a urinary tract infection (UTI)[1]. Cancer could also be present without …
Hormone therapy for metastatic prostate cancer
While the hormone therapy is working, the level of PSA should stay stable or may go down. But if prostate cancer starts to grow and develop, the level of PSA may go up. This is usually called …
Survival of prostate cancer | Cancer Research UK
The prognostic significance of combined gleason scores and PSA values as indicators of age standardized relative five-year survival: An analysis of the SEER database 2004-2014 A …