Anti-inflammatory medications do not affect the prostate specific antigen test, but if a patient has a condition such as prostatitis, then it is possible to affect the prostate specific antigen test.
Prostate Specific Antigen is abbreviated as PSA. Taking anti-inflammatory drugs usually does not affect the PSA test, and PSA is the preferred tumor marker for diagnosing prostate cancer. However, diseases such as prostatitis, prostate hypertrophy, prostate polyps, and nephritis can also cause patients to have elevated PSA levels. Therefore, if a patient takes anti-inflammatory medication because he or she is suffering from prostatitis, there is a possibility that PSA levels may be abnormal.
PSA is a substance secreted by the epithelial cells of the prostate gland, generally present in prostate tissue and semen, the PSA content in normal human serum is extremely small, generally less than 4.0ng/ml, if the patient suffers from prostatitis, then it should be 8 weeks after the disease is cured to determine the level of PSA.
If you need to carry out prostate-specific antigen test, please follow the doctor’s instructions to complete the relevant examination.