The 1 Thing To Remember About Your Prostate Cancer Screening
This article explains the nuances of prostate cancer screening, specifically focusing on the PSA test. It emphasizes that a single abnormal PSA result does not confirm cancer and that multiple factors can influence these levels.
Why it matters
Understanding the limitations of screening tests helps patients avoid unnecessary anxiety and ensures more accurate medical decision-making.
TODAY’s Never Have I Ever series offers guidance about procedures and practices our trusted health experts would never participate in. Discover why they should be avoided and which healthy practices you should turn to instead. Cancer screenings are essential to finding and diagnosing illness before symptoms begin and disease spreads. They’re especially important for certain cancers that don’t cause symptoms in the early stages. In these cases, screening can make all the difference in getting treatment as soon as possible, and prostate cancer is no exception. Should you and your doctor decide you should be screened for prostate cancer, you’ll likely get a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, which measures the amount of a protein called PSA found in the blood. An abnormal PSA level is typically one that’s elevated.
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