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Prostate cancer screening – Gentlyweeps.com previously wrote articles about Omega 3 Fish Oil Supplements, Prostate Cancer Treatment, and Prostate Problems. Now we are talking about Prostate cancer screening. Prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test and Digital rectal examination (DRE) are used in screening people for prostate cancer.

Prostate specific antigen (PSA) Testin. PSA is a protein produced by the prostate gland and released to the blood stream. Normally the value of PSA is <4ng /ml. The normal value in elderly people is slightly higher than in younger people . So a lower cut off level of <2.6ng/ml is used in younger people when PSA testing is done. Values above 10ng/ml are considered ‘high’ and values between 4 and 10 are considered ‘intermediate’. Values of PSA are raised in many conditions of prostate, which includes cancer. Other conditions where PSA is raised are BPH ( Benign Prostatic Read the rest of this entry »

Omega 3 Fish Oil Supplements – Gentlyweeps.com previously wrote articles about Prostate Cancer Treatment, Prostate Problems, and Neuroendocrine. Now we are talking about Fight Back Against Prostate Cancer Using Omega 3 Fish Oil Supplements. Prostate Cancer Kills. According to the American Cancer Association over 192,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. Over 27,000 men will die from this form of cancer each year. Cancer of the prostate is the second most deadly cancer for men, second only to lung cancer. This disease will kill about one man in every thirty five.

You can fight back. There are several factors that increase the probability of developing cancer in the prostate. One of these is a variation of a gene known as the COX-2 gene. Men who have this gene are more likely to develop prostate cancer.

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