Men with low PSA (prostate specific antigen) levels on screening tests can still have prostate cancer, according to a study* released today by scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Southwest Oncology Group, an NCI-funded network of researchers. In this study, prostate cancers were detected by biopsy in men with normal PSA levels. "The good news is that the vast majority of these cancers were low and intermediate grade, whi...
Prostate biopsy need not be the painful ordeal that many men anticipate, according to findings presented at the annual meeting of North Central Section of the American Urological Association in San Diego Typically, local anesthetic has been injected between the prostate base and seminal vesicle where the neurovascular bundle lies. Age, prostate volume, body mass index, inflammation and presence of cancer were not predictive of the level of pain experienced. However, injecting lidocai...