Alarming Psa Level

A psa level that s considered normal can vary depending on a few factors.

Alarming psa level.

At that psa level it is unlikely that you would have any physical symptoms from pca if you have it. The prostate specific antigen psa test is a blood test that measures levels of a protein the prostate gland produces. Psa tests are notoriously unreliable no matter how they re used. Also race can play a part in determining whether a test result should be considered alarming.

When i was diagnosed my psa was 59 and i did not have any symptoms. At age 40 a psa of 2 5 is the normal limit says john milner md a urologist in the chicago area. The results are typically given in nanograms of psa per milliliter of blood ng ml. High levels rising levels and even normal levels are all meaningless.

While in some cases a high psa score can point to the development of. Even the tumors detected through this system are almost always slow growing cancers that would never harm you. To your original question as to when increasing psa is. They re like the lottery numbers in a fortune cookie.

A measurement of 4 ng ml is. For most men pca has to be pretty far advanced to be symptomatic and would usually see much higher psa than you have. Even without any prostate problems your psa level can go up gradually as you age.