BOSTON (AP) – A disturbing new study has found that 15 percent of older men with supposedly normal readings on the widely used PSA test have prostate cancer anyway – and some even have aggressive tumors.
The findings intensify the dilemma of how to interpret the test results and how vigorously to treat men with no symptoms.
Some experts think the threshold for what constitutes normal on the PSA test should be lowered, at least in some cases. But others say that could lead to more unnecessary operations in the many men whose tumors are so slow-growing that something else will kill them before the cancer ever does. Continue reading