Tag: Prostate Specific Anntigen
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What New Diagnostic Tools and Drugs have Emerged as Interesting in 2024, Part II
In part II of our discussion around what is deemed to be new or updated for 2024, we are going to look at what lab-based…
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What New Diagnostic Tools and Drugs Have Emerged in 2024, Part 1
In my last post, I introduced you to some new information from The Cleveland Clinic Men’s Health Advisor. I hope you found the information interesting…
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Recap of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Series
Our series on the diagnosis of Prostate Cancer has spanned our last 8 posts and this is the last post in the series. I want…
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Radiation Treatment for PRostate Cancer
When you get the news of a positive biopsy report for cancer it is devasting. You will have a range of emotions from anger to…
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What Happens When you get an “Abnormal” PSA Test Result
This is a disturbing and interesting topic. Remember there is no such thing as a normal PSA score or test result! With that said, one…
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From Where Does the Standard for “Normal” Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Derive
Prostate Specific Antigen (shortened to PSA going forward in this discussion) is not cancer specific. It is a protein excreted from the normal, cancerous or…
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After the Original PSA Test Approvals, Where Do We Go Next?
We have explored the first 2 PSA Test FDA Approvals, as difficult as it may be to understand how they got an approval. But they…
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The Second FDA approved PSA Test
Hybritech was determined to get its PSA test approved by the FDA for expanded uses; rather than continuing to have physicians to use the test…
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Dr. Richard J Ablin (1940-2023)
Dr. Richard Ablin was the person that discovered an antigen specific to the Prostate in 1970. His discovery had nothing to do with cancer, simply…