Wondering when to consider a PSA test? Drs. Yaser Bassel and Howard Epstein recommends early screening for certain at-risk groups.
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Prostate Health and Addressing Common Issues
Living with prostate health issues can be challenging. Understanding the way the prostate gland grows and functions is key.
Continue readingThe Importance of the PSA Test: A Key to Prostate Health
Understand the importance of the PSA test. It is recommended for men between the ages of 55-70 who expects to live at least another 10 years.
Continue readingCommon Prostate Health Issues – Dr. Yaser Bassel
My name is Yaser Bassel. I’m a board certified urologist with Advanced Urology Institute.
Most patients that come to us with regards to prostate health issues, the majority of them are dealing with benign disease, in particular something called Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia or BPH. Oftentimes those types of diseases and those types of symptoms can be addressed with medication and then beyond that, there are treatments for BPH that include in-office procedures and then beyond that, surgical procedures as well.
The other spectrum is malignant prostate disease which is prostate cancer. Typically that is found with prostate cancer screening. We use the Prostate-specific Antigen (PSA) blood test for that and also digital rectal exam (DGA) to detect prostate cancer oftentimes in asymptomatic men. Typically treatments range from robotic prostatectomy, radiation therapy and now there are some newer technologies such as high intensity frequency ultrasound at our disposal. Beyond that, there are also new advanced prostate cancer therapies for prostate cancer that have gone out of the prostate as well.