Examples of prostate-specific antigen in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Within six months, his prostate-specific antigen, the protein secreted by cancer cells that oncologists use to measure a patient’s cancer, went down to zero, his bone lesions mostly disappeared, and Olson started to feel like his old self again. — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Wired, "One Man’s Search for the DNA Data That Could Save His Life," 19 Nov. 2020 Al's diagnosis came about after a routine physical yielded an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in his bloodwork. — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, "'Today' Star Hoda Kotb Posts a Heartfelt Instagram After Al Roker's Prostate Cancer Diagnosis," 7 Nov. 2020 That's why 16 years ago Arkansas Urology set out to make prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screens easy and free to any patient who walks through our doors. — Arkansas Online, "OPINION | TIMOTHY LANGFORD: Get screened," 12 Sep. 2020 That may be because many doctors pulled back on using the controversial prostate-specific antigen test, or PSA, which can spot the disease but can lead to over-treatment of men who may never have died from their tumors, Siegel said. — Robert Langreth, Bloomberg.com, "U.S. Cancer Death Rates Are Dropping at the Fastest Pace on Record," 5 May 2020 There’s precedent, like the rollout of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test in the US and Europe in the 1980s. — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, "“As important as finding the cure to cancer”: Behind the effort to end childhood toxic stress," 21 Mar. 2020 One is the 4Kscore test that combines the levels of four prostate-specific antigens with clinical information to estimate a man’s risk of having an aggressive cancer. — New York Times, "Debating the Value of PSA Prostate Screening," 24 Feb. 2020 Caught early, through either a digital rectal exam (DRE) or a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test, this disease is nearly always curable. — Armin Brott, chicagotribune.com, "How to save your husband’s life," 22 Nov. 2019 Because mammography, prostate-specific antigen levels and all other initial testing for common cancers are merely screening tests, no patient ever receives definitive treatment for cancer before these tests are confirmed by a biopsy. — Scientific American, "Readers Respond to "The Coming Mega Drought" and Other Articles," 1 May 2012

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