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|Videos|May 19, 2017

Expert on Studies of the PSA Test in Prostate Cancer

Andrew Vickers, PhD, attending research methodologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center discusses studies of the controversial prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for patients with prostate cancer.

Andrew Vickers, PhD, attending research methodologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center discusses studies of the controversial prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for patients with prostate cancer.

Going back to Swedish data, it has been determined that a midlife PSA test is strongly predictive of long-term risk of aggressive prostate cancer, but a PSA test is not a beneficial test for prostate cancer, explains Vickers.

Studies have also tried to determine how much getting a PSA test advances the time of when a patient has cancer compared to when they show up to the clinic and are diagnosed.

Clinicians referring a patient to MSK can do so by visiting msk.org/refer, emailing referapatient@mskcc.org, or by calling 833-315-2722.

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