This article was reviewed by Darragh O’Carroll, MD. PSA and Testosterone: Are They Linked? Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a term you’ll probably become familiar with once you start getting ...

Q. You recently wrote that testosterone does not increase the risks for heart attacks. But you overlooked the real risk of testosterone therapy: cancer!

The testosterone threshold should be less than 10 ng/dL rather than less than 50 ng/dL for gauging advanced prostate cancer prognosis in patients on ADT. Examining sustained testosterone suppression ...

Experts project the diagnosis of over 300,000 prostate cancer cases in the United States in 2006, along with over 30,000 ...

In prostate cancer, hormone therapy is treatment to keep the cancer cells from getting testosterone, the main male hormone (androgen). Hormone therapy for prostate cancer is also called ...

Daniel Kelly does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Q. You recently wrote that testosterone does not increase the risk for heart attacks. But you overlooked the real risk of ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. The first thing Abraham Morgentaler learned about testosterone is that it’s a brain hormone. It was in a ...

Testosterone is the primary androgen — or male hormone — in your body. Low testosterone affects up to 39 percent of adult men in the US over the age of 45, and becomes increasingly prevalent as men ...