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huck - 11 Mar 2005 12:57 GMT
I am age 70  PSA Test showed 1.3 good or bad ????   thanks
ron - 11 Mar 2005 14:47 GMT
Huck...Here are the results of a study of 2,950 men age 60-92 with
PSA<4 ng/ml.  The results suggest that the probability of your having
PCa, based on your PSA alone, would be around 17%...Best wishes and
good health, Ron

Prevalence of prostate cancer among men with a prostate-specific
antigen level < or =4.0 ng per milliliter.

Thompson IM, Pauler DK, Goodman PJ, Tangen CM, Lucia MS, Parnes HL,
Minasian LM, Ford LG, Lippman SM, Crawford ED, Crowley JJ, Coltman CA
Jr.

N Engl J Med. 2004 May 27;350(22):2239-46

Among the 2950 men (age range, 62 to 91 years), prostate cancer was
diagnosed in 449 (15.2 percent); 67 of these 449 cancers (14.9 percent)
had a Gleason score of 7 or higher. The prevalence of prostate cancer
was 6.6 percent among men with a PSA level of up to 0.5 ng per
milliliter, 10.1 percent among those with values of 0.6 to 1.0 ng per
milliliter, 17.0 percent among those with values of 1.1 to 2.0 ng per
milliliter, 23.9 percent among those with values of 2.1 to 3.0 ng per
milliliter, and 26.9 percent among those with values of 3.1 to 4.0 ng
per milliliter. The prevalence of high-grade cancers increased from
12.5 percent of cancers associated with a PSA level of 0.5 ng per
milliliter or less to 25.0 percent of cancers associated with a PSA
level of 3.1 to 4.0 ng per milliliter.
MisterSkippy - 11 Mar 2005 19:39 GMT
>I am age 70  PSA Test showed 1.3 good or bad ????   thanks

If the DRE was also negative, you should be just fine. Assuming your
doc has no reservations for some reason, like we say in Joisey,
"fuggedaboudit !" until next year when you have your next annual PSA
and DRE.

"When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's
constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into
his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all."
- Justice William O. Douglas
dale.j. - 12 Mar 2005 00:21 GMT
> I am age 70  PSA Test showed 1.3 good or bad ????   thanks

That's a good number, so why are you here?

Dale j.

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