After surgical removal of the prostate to treat prostate cancer, clinicians monitor Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) levels. Persistently elevated PSA levels indicate residual cancer and are linked to ...
Editor's note: second of two parts; read part one here. In the first part of our series, we described how PSA is used as a screening tool to help detect prostate cancer in men who don't have symptoms.
Prostate cancer grading uses the Gleason score (6-10) and Grade Group (1-5) systems to estimate cancer aggressiveness based on how the cells look under a microscope. Higher numbers indicate ...