By Harvard Health, 11/01/24
“…Men who choose periodic screening for prostate cancer typically get a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. If the PSA level is abnormally high, men often need a biopsy. The biopsy not only confirms the presence of cancer, it also offers information on how it might grow and spread. This is done by creating a Gleason score from the biopsied samples. …”
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