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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)Comment receiving replies
@heavyphil
PSA tests don't reveal cancer only that the PSA is elevated, rising, or falling. My PCP, urologist, R/O were concerned with the constant rising numbers over a long period of time and not the actual PSA number. It is the other tests done to determine if cancer is causing it.
PSE is not something I have heard about. It is sounds like a much more accurate test to determine the probablity of having cancer. But you would still need the biopsies to confirm.
Is this PSE widely known test? Wonder why would not hear about at Mayo Jacksonville and UFHPTI?
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It looks like the PSE test was introduced in the US in September of 2023:
https://www.urologytimes.com/view/episwitch-prostate-screening-blood-test-launches-on-us-market
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It came out at the end of 2023. Just Google it and all the info is there.
The 4K score is another test which includes PSA and 3 other markers but none of my doctors knew - or cared - about it.
I had it done on my own and I scored 9. Not bad, right? 7.5 and under is normal. But I had a solid Gleason 4+3 unfavorable. My friend had a 27 but his cancer was 3+4 so where’s the correlation in that?!
I guess this newer PSE test adds 2 more markers which narrows the odds considerably toward a true Positive result.