Tag: PSA Test
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What New Diagnostic Tools and Drugs have Emerged as Interesting in 2024, Part III
In Part III of our series, we are looking at diagnostic tools that are generated by Imaging tools. This will be by far the shortest…
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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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Jeff Schwenk’s Prostatectomy Experience
Before I give you Jeff’s first-hand experience of what it is like to chose a Prostatectomy as the correct solution I want to pause and…
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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…