Unusually High PSA Level Allows Diagnosis of a Metastatic Prostate Cancer in Older Man

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M. Clua J. Idoux S. Ngo T. Cudennec Laurent Teillet Marion Pépin

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Marion Pépin
Geriatric Department, Ambroise Paré Hospital, AP-HP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

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Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer amongst men in France despite the absence of a generalized screening program. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level can be used as a screening test. We report the case of an 86-year-old patient, whose metastatic prostate cancer was diagnosed on an unusually high PSA level (over 5000µg/L), without urologic signs. The diagnostic was then confirmed by a thoracicabdominal-pelvic CT scan, which found diffuse metastases, before hormonal therapy started.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Tue 30, Jun 2020
Accepted: Fri 10, Jul 2020
Published: Tue 21, Jul 2020

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© 2023 Marion Pépin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.GGR.2020.02.03