It’s quite remarkable. After all, the local weatherman can’t predict how much snow we’ll get tomorrow. Strike that. Though a mere handful of hours away, the weatherman can’t predict whether we’ll get snow tomorrow or have an unseasonably bright and sunny spring like day. (It’s not a profession to be envied.)

So, can scientists really predict

Yes. According to new research a separate tryout before age 50 accurately predicts which men are most at risk in the future. OK, so that’s not an exact, person-by-person prediction. True. But, it does open the door for determining which men should be most aggressively screened as they age. That’s a huge advantage by the current willy-nilly methodology.

A team of researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Sweden’s Lund University found that a restricted prostate specific antigen (PSA) experiment is highly predictive. The pop quiz measures the amount of a specific protein that is produced by the prostate. The team found that a high PSA level before the age of 50 has a high correlation with the development of aggressive prostate cancer later in life.

“We have found that a separate PSA tryout taken at or before age 50 is a very strong predictor of advanced prostate cancer diagnosed up to 25 years later.

Original post by tim