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It’s Been A 26-Year Long PSA Journey
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@denis76 With regular bloodwork - which most should probably be getting with their annual overall health checkup - PSA & testosterone are just two prostate cancer related markers.
> CMP: Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (about 2 dozen blood markers)
> CBC: Complete Blood Count (over a dozen different blood markers)
And depending on where you are in your prostate cancer journey, there are additional blood, tissue, or urine marker tests, the results of which may play a role in diagnosis.
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@brianjarvis Exactly. They need to monitor not just the cancer's progress (if any), but also the impact the cancer is having on your body, and the impact that the cancer *treatment* is having on your body. Hence the huge array of tests.