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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends against screening for men over 75. "There's no question that there has been overtreatment of prostate cancer," says Tosoian.
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Read More »We are living longer, and 75 is not the ripe old age it used to be. But it's a cutoff age for PSA screening — and this is missing cancer in men who really need to be treated, say Brady investigators. "There is increasing evidence that this age-based approach is significantly flawed," says Patrick C. Walsh, M.D., University Distinguished Service Professor of Urology. Walsh is the senior author of a recent Brady study that looked at high-risk prostate cancer in older men. The study's interdisciplinary group of investigators also includes first authors Jeffrey Tosoian and Ridwan Alam, and Carol Gergis; Amol Narang, Noura Radwan, Scott Robertson, Todd McNutt, Ashley Ross, Danny Song, Theodore Deweese, and Phuoc Tran. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends against screening for men over 75. "There's no question that there has been overtreatment of prostate cancer," says Tosoian. "However, that is getting better; more men are taking part in active surveillance programs, and we are much better at interpreting PSA and other biomarkers to rule out aggressive disease." But PSA can't be interpreted if a man doesn't get his PSA tested. Population studies have shown that "men diagnosed at 75 years or older account for 48 percent of metastatic cancers and 53 percent of prostate cancer deaths, despite representing only 26 percent of the overall population," says Tran, Clinical Director of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences. Why are older men more likely to die from prostate cancer? To find out, the team studied 274 men over age 75 who underwent radiation therapy for prostate cancer. "We found that men who underwent PSA testing were significantly less likely to be diagnosed with high-risk prostate cancer, and that men with either no PSA testing or incomplete testing (either a change in PSA was not followed up, or a biopsy was not performed when it was indicated) had more than a three-fold higher risk of having high-risk disease at diagnosis, when adjusted for other clinical risk factors," says Tran. Although this was a small study and more research is needed, Walsh says, "we believe that PSA screening should be considered in very healthy older men."
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Read More »After radiation therapy it may take 1-2 years for your PSA to drop to its lowest level. Each case is different, so ask your doctor about what your numbers mean.
You probably had a blood test to check your levels of PSA -- a protein called prostate-specific antigen -- before your doctor told you that you have prostate cancer. You'll still get those tests now that your cancer has spread beyond your prostate. The results are important, because if they show that your PSA level rises quickly, you may need different treatment. Your prostate makes PSA. So do most prostate cancer cells. During prostate cancer treatment, changes in your PSA levels help show whether your treatment is working. When you get treatment -- whether it's chemo, hormone therapy, a vaccine, or a combination -- your PSA levels should drop and stay low. If you have surgery to remove your prostate, you will likely have undetectable PSA levels after a couple of months. Sometimes, a very low level of PSA may be detected even after surgery. Talk to your doctor about what this might mean.
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