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fPSA: PSA can be found attached to blood proteins and floating free in your blood. The free PSA (fPSA) test measures what percentage of the overall PSA is free versus attached. If you have a lower ...
The PSA test measures the level of prostate-specific antigen in your blood. The lab will report your results in nanograms of PSA per milliliter (ng/mL) of blood. Only the prostate gland releases ...
Stage 1 is the least advanced form of prostate cancer. Cancer in this stage is small and hasn’t spread past the prostate gland. It’s characterized by a PSA of less than 10 ng/mL, a grade group ...
A PSA in the range of 4-10 nanograms per milliliter is linked to a 25% chance of prostate cancer. Most people with a PSA below 4 nanograms per milliliter don't have prostate cancer, but there's no ...
The Gleason system uses the numbers 1 to 5 to grade the most common (primary) and second most common (secondary) patterns of cells found in a tissue sample. Grade 1. The cells look very much like ...
There’s no official guidance on what a typical range is and what the upper limit should be for further testing. The recommended upper limits for PSA levels by age are as follows: Age (years) PSA ...
e. The Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) is a 35-item parent-report questionnaire designed to identify children with difficulties in psychosocial functioning. Its primary purpose is to alert pediatricians at an early point about which children would benefit from further assessment. [1] A positive result on the overall scale indicates that the ...
The history of ITAS and its preceding institutions dates back to the 1950s. [5] In 1958 the Study Group for Systems Research (SfS) was founded in Heidelberg by Helmut Krauch. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1975, a part of the SfS was integrated in the Institute for Applied Systems Engineering and Nuclear Physics (IASR) of Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe led ...