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The prostate specific antigen is often used as a biological marker or a tumor marker for detecting prostate cancer. However elevated levels of PSA are not indicative of prostate cancer and additional investigations are required for further diagnosis. There are several factors that may be responsible for elevated levels of PSA in the blood, 1  Benign Enlargement of the Prostate or BPH is a condition which affects older men.
Welcome to the board! Several things are well-known for making the PSA level go up or down, and most of the time the PSA level changes it is not due to prostate cancer! Let's start there - with prostate cancer. Prostate cells make PSA, and that does not stop when the cells become cancerous. The reason PSA is a clue to possible prostate cancer is that a lot more PSA gets into the blood, where a blood test can detect it, when there is cancer.