Peter Attia· MD
does the amount of free PSA that we would want to see to be more assured of a benign nature of the PSA vary by age and absolute PSA level yes it does
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does the amount of free PSA that we would want to see to be more assured of a benign nature of the PSA vary by age and absolute PSA level yes it does
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if we have high amounts of free PSA 30% for example then we can have good reassurance that most of the PSA in the blood that you're detecting is from benign cells
and that ratio we use you and I use in our practices to help discriminate against PSA that's in the bloodstream that may have leaked from a cancer cell or may have leaked from a benign epithelial cell