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A friend's PSA went from 10.6 to 16 in 6 months: BPH or cancer?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 1 6:26pm | Replies (20)
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Never heart PSA was only 51% accurate. Is this to show if have cancer? Having a high PSA does not mean cancer it means irritation in prostrate. Rising PSA numbers show irritation and can come from cancer, enlarged prostrate, infection, irritation from bike riding, etc.,

PSA test I was told by my PCP, R/O, and urologist is a test to determine if additional tests are needed to determine cancer or other issues wiht prostrate not a determination of whether you have cancer or not.

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heavyphil | @heavyphil | Oct 1 4:58am

From what I’ve read PSA is ‘only’ about 51% accurate in detecting actual prostate cancer - there are a huge amount of false positives and many men are biopsied and put thru testing and anxiety needlessly for BPH, irritation or infection.
PSE measures SIX blood components- including PSA which is but ONE marker - so if the results come back elevated there is a 94-97% chance that you do have cancer.
So if it walks, quacks, flies and does 3 others things that a duck does, it is definitely a duck.

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