Screening

Prostate is one of the few cancer sites that have a longstanding reliable screening method to check for prostate cancer.

The Prostatic Specific Antigen (PSA) is a routine blood test that will be done during a routine physical exam, or if a patient comes in with symptoms. In addition, many hospitals have free PSA screenings in September for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

PSA is a substance made by the prostate that may be found in elevated amounts in the blood of men who have prostate cancer. PSA may also be elevated due to infection, inflammation or Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH).

See Biomarkers (tumor markers ) for information on coding PSA.

Solid Tumor Rules

Prostate cancers are almost always a single primary, and they are almost always adenocarcinoma (8140).

Solid Tumor Rules. Other Sites-group Instructions

Updated: June 15, 2026