U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Washington DC (USA) mayor Adrian Fenty are educating Americans about the importance of knowing their human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status. Along with PSA, men in the United States are advised to be tested for AIDS.

PSA检测前列腺癌

美国卫生与公众服务部秘书长凯瑟琳西贝利厄斯和华盛顿市长阿德里安共同呼吁人们对人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）的危害性的关注。伴随前列腺特异抗原测试（PSA），美国男子被建议进行艾滋病检测。

PSA检测前列腺癌提供了一个理想的艾滋病筛查方法。虽然PSA目前还有一定的争议，但它仍然在世界是一个检测前列腺癌的一个基本工具，而且在发达国家确实有许多男性利用PSA检测前列腺癌。

描述PSA筛查前列腺癌并解释其利弊的概况介绍由国家癌症研究所在2009年3月出版。它描述了PSA作为前列腺产生的一种物质，在前列腺癌患者、良性前列腺增生症、前列腺感染或发炎的血液中含量很高。

美国食品和药物管理局批准使用PSA测试连同直肠测试帮助50岁及以上的男性检查前列腺癌。
上周美国FDA还批准了PSA测试监测患者的病史、前列腺癌、癌症复发程度。

 

Men testing for PSA offer an ideal situation for AIDS screening. Although the PSA is a test presently controversial, it is still used throughout the world as a basic tool for prostate cancer detection. Many men do have the PSA test, particularly in developed countries.

 

A fact sheet that describes the PSA screening test for prostate cancer and explains the benefits and limitations of the test was published by the National Cancer Institute (NCC; USA; Bethesda MD, USA) in March 2009. It describes PSA as a substance produced by the prostate, which can be found in higher levels in the blood of men who have prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, infection or inflammation of the prostate.

 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA; Rockville, MD, USA) approved the use of the PSA test along with a digital rectal exam to help detect prostate cancer in men age 50 and older. The FDA has also approved the PSA test to monitor patients with a history of prostate cancer to see if the cancer has recurred.