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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.
PSAs are proteins formed by cells in the prostate gland. Previously, elevated PSA levels acquired from a simple blood test were believed to be a huge red flag for prostate cancer, says Dr. Kohli. Nowadays, most doctors know that high PSA levels could be false alarms to cancer. The big C isnât the only thing that can cause these levels to riseâbenign conditions like inflammation, infection, or enlargement of the prostate can increase them, too.