Two of the most commonly used classes of medication—statins and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)—may compromise already controversial cancer screenings by lowering serum levels of ...

Past research has suggested that men with higher BMIs might have lower PSA levels, Fowke and his team note in the medical journal Cancer, while white men may have lower PSA levels, on average ...

A popular herbal supplement used by prostate cancer patients has been found to significantly reduce prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels--a protein in the blood that often indicates prostate ...

Hemodilution from increased circulating plasma volumes could explain why obese men with prostate cancer have lower serum PSA levels than non-obese men with the malignancy, according to researchers.

Nearly two years ago, researchers published a report in JAMA (2007;298:2275-2280) suggesting that obese men may have lower PSA levels because they have higher circulating plasma volumes than ...

In this study, researchers evaluated the association between NSAID use, PSA levels, and prostate volume, and hypothesized that men using NSAIDs would have lower PSA levels and prostate volume.

Transdermal estradiol patches — the same ones used to curb menopause symptoms in women — are an effective alternative to luteinizing hormone–releasing hormone agonists to lower PSA levels in ...

That’s the dosage of Propecia used by more than 4 million men to treat male-pattern baldness, and shown by the study to lower serum PSA concentrations by as much as half.

In another one of the studies, about two-thirds of the men had ever had a PSA test, with no significant differences according to body weight. Of obese men, 11 percent had a PSA level of 4 ...