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| Group: User Level: Posts: 1 Joined: 6/15/2013 IP-Address: saved  | HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Blood tests that indicate prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels are rising rapidly after a while are of little used in detecting aggressive prostate cancer and should not be exercised, a new paper indicates. PSA is actually a protein created by cells on the prostate gland <a href=http://smxy.com/oakley.html>オークリー メガネ</a>. High levels of <a href=http://smxy.com/oakley.html>オークリー サングラス</a> PSA can be quite a marker for prostate cancer, although it's far from your perfect screening tool, experts say. "The velocity didn't add some thing to detecting aggressive prostate cancers." The analysis is published online Feb. 24 inside Journal with the National Cancer Institute. The complete issue of cancer of prostate screening -- such as PSA test, digital rectal exam and PSA velocity -- has become controversial, said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society (ACS). Area of the difficulty is, while current screening methods are wonderful at detecting cancer, they cannot separate aggressive, life-threatening prostate cancers and those that are slow-growing and relatively benign. And a lot of prostate cancers are merely that -- of little risk to men during their lifetimes, Brawley said. Current ACS prostate screening cancer guidelines suggest men make an educated decision making use of their doctor about calling be tested for prostate kind of cancer. "Research hasn't yet proven how the potential benefits associated with testing outweigh the harms of testing and treatment," in accordance with the ACS. For PSA velocity, the ACS doesn't have a job on the PSA velocity warrants a biopsy. But the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and American Urological Association guidelines do recommend biopsies dependant on <a href=http://smxy.com/oakley.html>オークリー ゴルフ</a> high PSA velocities, even during the absence of a rapid PSA or possibly a suspicious digital rectal exam, as outlined by background information inside the study. And lots of internal medicine and primary-care doctors, to some extent owing to <a href=http://smxy.com/oakley.html>オークリー</a> fears of litigation, do order biopsies based on fast-rising PSA levels, Brawley said. "It's something has become almost a community standard. If your guy includes a PSA of .8 this past year, and also a year or so later you've repeated it and it is 1.9, given it has grown by way of factor of merely one he gets sent to <a href=http://smxy.com/oakley.html>オークリー ゴーグル</a> biopsy," Brawley said. While in the study, researchers used data on more than 5,500 men in their 60s and 70s who taken part in a drug trial for a cancer of prostate prevention drug. The men within the study counseled me from the placebo arm, meaning they not received the drug. Contained in the trial, each of the men decided to have got a biopsy at the conclusion of the trial, needed or otherwise not. Researchers saw a statistical association between PSA velocity and the probabilities of a biopsy returning cancerous. <a href=http://forum.ventrilo.com/member.php?u=213854>http://forum.ventrilo.com/member.php?u=213854</a> <a href=http://mrt-service.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=384036#p384036>http://mrt-service.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=384036#p384036</a> <a href=http://portal.littlepok.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=134477&extra=>http://portal.littlepok.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=134477&extra=</a> <a href=http://164.115.5.58/forecast/forecastboard/member.php?action=profile&uid=10770>http://164.115.5.58/forecast/forecastboard/member.php?action=profile&uid=10770</a> <a href=http://diendan.khamphamoi.com/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=40043>http://diendan.khamphamoi.com/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=40043</a> | |
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