What is total prostate-specific antigen?

Total prostate-specific antigen is a very important substance secreted by the prostate epithelium, and a high level of this substance indicates that a man may have prostatitis or prostate cancer.

Total prostate-specific antigen, a protein secreted by the prostate gland, is present in large amounts in semen, and doctors often use the normal level of this substance to determine whether a man has prostate disease, and if total prostate-specific antigen is high, a man may have a problem with his prostate.

In fact, checking whether the secretion of total prostate-specific antigen is normal can determine how healthy a man’s prostate is. The first thing you need to do is to check the protein secretion to see if you have any of these problems, and if you find that the total prostate-specific antigen secretion is too high, it means that you have a high probability of prostate disease and you need to take other measures to confirm whether you have prostate disease.

Total prostate-specific antigen was discovered in the 1960s and has been used in medicine since then, although it was not discovered very early, but the significance of its discovery for men is great.