How to Use prostate-specific antigen in a Sentence

prostate-specific antigen

noun

• The ratio is even worse for PSA (prostate-specific antigen) tests for prostate cancer in men.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2021
• Right now, the main way to get screened is to have a blood sample tested for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) markers.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 9 Sep. 2023
• The blood and prostate-specific antigen tests are acceptable as long as they are done in the same hospital or lab.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
• PSAs, or prostate-specific antigens, are cancer biomarkers used to detect cancer through the blood; high levels could mean the presence of cancer cells.
  — Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2019
• The new research has reignited debate over screening for prostate cancer through prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests.
  — Washington Post, 23 May 2018
• Their tumors were more likely to shrink, their prostate-specific antigen levels were more likely to fall, and the risk of their cancer progressing was reduced by 60 percent.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2021
• That may be because many doctors pulled back on using the controversial prostate-specific antigen test, or PSA, which can spot the disease but can lead to over-treatment of men who may never have died from their tumors, Siegel said.
  — Robert Langreth, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• Miller, 76, wrote that his levels are down for akaline phosphates, which can indicate problems in the bones or liver, as well as of prostate-specific antigens, which indicate prostate cancer levels.
  — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 10 June 2019
• The rise in cases of deadly prostate cancer may be partly linked to recommendations against prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, screening for healthy men, experts suggest.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2023
• It is recommended that men 55 to 69 receive a prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, blood test and a rectal exam annually, Gburek said.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2024
• One is the 4Kscore test that combines the levels of four prostate-specific antigens with clinical information to estimate a man’s risk of having an aggressive cancer.
  — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020
• Given the threat, older men have been routinely undergoing prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, screening to detect the disease.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• Tyler said his cancer was first detected during a routine physical exam at age 56, when his doctor ordered a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 21 June 2021
• Biochemical tests revealed high levels of prostate-specific antigen, or PSA.
  — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2013
• Some physicians and organizations have discouraged screening with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test, citing the lack of a survival benefit from screening and the risk of overtreatment, Showalter noted.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2024
• Scientists and urologists have found that Selenium contributes to lowering prostate-specific antigen levels in men, which is a superb way to reduce prostate cancer risk to some extent.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• Nevertheless, the new data immediately reignited long-running arguments over the use of screening through prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, tests.
  — Laurie McGinley, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• Within six months, his prostate-specific antigen, the protein secreted by cancer cells that oncologists use to measure a patient’s cancer, went down to zero, his bone lesions mostly disappeared, and Olson started to feel like his old self again.
  — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Wired, 19 Nov. 2020
• Consequently, more than half of those men with an elevated prostate-specific antigen do not actually have cancer, according to Hoffman.
  — Mark Lieber, CNN, 8 May 2018
• Al's diagnosis came about after a routine physical yielded an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in his bloodwork.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 7 Nov. 2020
• Although several seminal plasma allergens have been reported and their molecular masses have been estimated to range between 12 and 75 kd, the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has recently been identified as a causative allergen.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2012
• Because mammography, prostate-specific antigen levels and all other initial testing for common cancers are merely screening tests, no patient ever receives definitive treatment for cancer before these tests are confirmed by a biopsy.
  — Scientific American, 1 May 2012

Last Updated: 13 Feb 2025