DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 68-year old male in good health who exercises regularly, doesn’t take any medications, and doesn’t have a family history of prostate cancer. During my most recent yearly ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 53-year-old healthy male, and I always request to check my PSA levels each year. My 57-year-old brother’s new doctor denied his request for a routine PSA check on their initial ...
For many struggling with body image, heading to the doctor for a specific health issue or even just a routine checkup is more stressful than it needs to be. Weigh-ins are a standard practice before ...
This article was reviewed by Darragh O’Carroll, MD. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a term you’ll probably become familiar with once you start getting screened regularly for prostate cancer ...
The PSA test has been dissed a lot lately. The nation's preventive medicine task force, for one, says the test is so unreliable in figuring out who's at risk for deadly prostate cancer that most men ...
Most primary care clinicians do not see value in screening Black men for prostate cancer, despite recommendations to do so from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the American Urological ...