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How Testosterone Therapy Can Affect Your Prostate's PSA Levels #shorts #BPH #enlargedprostate

1 May 2024 · 1 min

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When men on testosterone therapy get their levels back to normal, their PSA can rise as the prostate enlarges. This doesn't mean cancer, but it needs monitoring. Anne Truong MD explains why with a flower pot analogy.

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One thing to note. If you have low testosterone and the doctor give you additional testosterone, you will see an increase in the PSA level in your prostate. Not necessarily that's bad. It's just that imagine prostate like a flower pot. It needs water, but when it doesn't have water, it shrinks. But when you add a little bit of water to it, the PSA kind of elevate would necessarily mean that it's at risk for prostate cancer. It's just that it just elevates and that need to be monitored.