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Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), Total
A prostate-derived protein measured in blood. PSA can be elevated for benign and malignant reasons and is used as part of prostate cancer risk assessment, not as a diagnosis on its own.
What is measured?
The concentration of total prostate-specific antigen in blood.
What the result represents?
Aden's range
What a raised or a low result can indicate
How Aden reads it as part of a system?
Aden reads this result alongside related sex hormones, SHBG, LH, FSH, prolactin, thyroid markers and your previous measurements. It is treated as one part of the wider hormonal picture, not as a diagnosis on its own.
What changes between tests?
Which related markers give it context?
related sex hormones, SHBG, LH, FSH, prolactin, thyroid markers
How to get this tested?
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