High levels rising levels and even normal levels are all meaningless.
Alarming psa level.
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.
They re like the lottery numbers in a fortune cookie.
A psa level that s considered normal can vary depending on a few factors.
At age 40 a psa of 2 5 is the normal limit says john milner md a urologist in the chicago area.
Even without any prostate problems your psa level can go up gradually as you age.
When i was diagnosed my psa was 59 and i did not have any symptoms.
A psa test is a test that measures the levels of the protein in the blood.
The results are typically given in nanograms of psa per milliliter of blood ng ml.
The prostate specific antigen psa test is a blood test that measures levels of a protein the prostate gland produces.
For most men pca has to be pretty far advanced to be symptomatic and would usually see much higher psa than you have.
A measurement of 4 ng ml is.
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.
While in some cases a high psa score can point to the development of.