PSA Test Importance | Prostate Health Awareness Month

September is prostate health awareness month and with it brings the importance of raising public awareness to the importance of prostate health, diseases and concerns. Prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, is a protein produced by cells of the prostate gland. The PSA test measures the level of PSA in a man’s blood and can help with the diagnoses of the following frequent prostate issues in men:

Most common prostate diseases (that are reported in males over 40 years of age) are:

• Benign hypertrophy or enlargement of the prostate gland
• Inflammation of prostate (also known as prostatitis – it may be acute or chronic)
• Malignancy of prostate (Prostate cancer)