| Health / Medical Topics |
PSA failure
Pronunciation
A rise in the blood level of PSA (prostate-specific antigen) in prostate cancer patients after treatment with surgery or radiation. PSA failure may occur in patients who do not have symptoms. It may mean that the cancer has come back. Also called biochemical recurrence and biochemical relapse. (NCI Dictionary)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
A brief rise and then fall in the blood level of PSA (prostate-specific antigen) that occurs in some patients 1-3 years after…
Any immunoglobulin that recognizes prostate-specific antigen.
A protein made by the prostate gland and found in the blood. PSA blood levels may be higher than normal in men…
A drug used to treat multiple myeloma. It is also used to treat mantle cell lymphoma in patients who have already received…
A targeted prodrug consisting of a recombinant modified form of the Aeromonas protoxin, proaerolysin (PA), bearing a prostate-specific protease cleavage site, with…
Intense itching of the external female genitals.
