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Does recent COVID-19 infection result in elevated PSA?

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Radiation Oncology · Stony Brook University School of Medicine

A study from Turkey showed that PSA can increase sometimes dramatically in men with BPH (not necessarily with prostate cancer) during active COVID infection, from an average of 1.5 pre-COVID to 4.3 during active infection. (Cinislioglu et al., PMID 34626600). One can imagine a similar phenomenon may...

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