I roto i te ao hauora o ngā tāne, he iti noa ngā kupu whakarāpopoto e rite ana te taumaha—ā, e whakaoho ana hoki i te tautohetohe—ki te PSA. Ko te whakamātautau Prostate-Specific Antigen, he tango toto noa iho, kei te noho tonu hei tetahi o ngā taputapu tino kaha, engari kāore i te mārama te tikanga, i roto i te pakanga ki te mate pukupuku prostate. I te whanaketanga tonu o ngā aratohu hauora, ko te karere nui mō ia tāne me ō rātou whānau ko tēnei: ​​ehara i te mea he mea nui noa te kōrero whai whakaaro mō te whakamātautau PSA; he mea nui hoki.

He mate puku te mate pukupuku repeure i ngā wāhanga tōmua, ā, he tino ngāwari ki te rongoā. Kāore i rite ki te maha atu o ngā mate pukupuku, ka taea te whanake mō ngā tau, kāore he tohu e kitea. I te wā e puta mai ai ngā tohu pēnei i te uauatanga o te mimi, te mamae o te wheua, te toto rānei i roto i te mimi, tera pea kua horapa kē te mate pukupuku, ā, ka uaua ake te maimoatanga, ā, kāore i te tino mārama ngā putanga. He pūnaha whakatūpato wawe te whakamātautau PSA. Ka ine i te taumata o te pūmua i hangaia e te repe repeure. Ahakoa ehara te taumata PSA teitei i te tautuhi tino tika mō te mate pukupuku—ka taea hoki te whakanui ake e ngā āhuatanga noa, ehara i te mate pukupuku pēnei i te Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) te prostatitis rānei—he tohu whero nui tēnei, e akiaki ana i ētahi atu rangahau.

Koinei te pūtake o te tautohetohe, ā, he āhuatanga motuhake tēnei me mārama ngā tāne katoa. I mua, nā ngā āwangawanga mō te "tātaritanga nui rawa" me te "whakaora nui rawa" o ngā mate pukupuku puhoi e tipu haere ana, e kore nei pea e tūpono ki te ora, i ārahi ētahi whakahaere hauora tūmatanui ki te whakaiti i te aro ki ngā tirotiro auau. Ko te mataku kei te whiwhi ngā tāne i ngā maimoatanga kaha mō ngā mate pukupuku he iti noa te mōrearea, ā, tera pea ka pāngia e ngā pānga taha e whakarerekē ana i te ora pērā i te kore e taea te pupuri i te mimi me te koretake o te ure.

Heoi, kua tino pakari te huarahi hou ki te whakamātautau PSA. Ko te nekehanga matua ko te neke atu i te whakamātautau aunoa, whānui ki te whakatau whai whakaaro, whai wāhi tahi. Kāore te kōrero e pā ana ki te whakamātautau anake; engari he kōrero taipitopito ki tō tākuta.i mua ite whakamātautau. Me ahu mai tēnei kōrero i ngā āhuatanga mōrearea takitahi, tae atu ki te tau (tīmata i te 50 tau te pakeke, i mua atu rānei mō ngā rōpū mōrearea nui), te hītori whānau (ka rua te mōrearea o te mate pukupuku repeure ina pāngia te pāpā, te tungāne rānei), me te iwi taketake (he nui ake te auau me te mate o ngā tāne Āwherika-Amerika).

Mā te whakamahi i tēnei kōtaha mōrearea whaiaro, ka taea e te tāne me tana tākuta te whakatau mēnā he tika te whakamātautau PSA. Mēnā he teitei te taumata PSA, kāore te urupare e hiahiatia he koiora tere, he maimoatanga rānei. Engari, he maha ngā rautaki a ngā tākuta ināianei. Tērā pea ka tūtohu rātou i te "tirotiro kaha," arā, ka tirotirohia tata te mate pukupuku mā te whakamātautau PSA auau me ngā koiora anō, ā, ka wawao noa mēnā e whakaatu ana i ngā tohu o te whanaketanga. Mā tēnei huarahi ka karo haumaru i te maimoatanga mō ngā tāne he iti te mōrearea o te mate.

Heoi, he petipeti te kore aro ki te whakamātautau PSA, he nui rawa ngā tūponotanga. Ko te mate pukupuku repeure te tuarua o ngā tino take o te mate pukupuku i roto i ngā tāne. Ina kitea wawetia, tata ki te 100% te ōrau oranga mō ngā tau e rima. Mō te mate pukupuku kua horapa ki ngā wāhanga tawhiti o te tinana, ka tino heke taua ōrau. Ahakoa ōna ngoikoretanga katoa, ko te whakamātautau PSA te taputapu pai rawa atu e wātea ana hei hopu i te mate i taua wā wawe, ka taea te rongoā.

He mārama te whakaaro nui: kaua e tukua te tautohetohe kia whakararu i a koe. Kia matatau. Tīmatahia te kōrero ki tō kaiwhakarato hauora. Kia mārama ki tō mōrearea whaiaro. Paunatia ngā painga pea o te kitenga wawe me ngā mōrearea o ngā whakaoho teka. Ehara te whakamātautau PSA i te pōro karaihe tino tika, engari he kōrero nui. I roto i te kaupapa ki te tiaki i te hauora o ngā tāne, ko aua kōrero ka waiho hei rerekētanga i waenga i te ora me te mate. Whakaritea taua wā hui, pātaihia ngā pātai, ā, whakahaerea te mana. Ka mihi atu tōu ake oranga ā muri ake nei ki a koe.

Ka taea e mātou te whakarato ratonga hauora BaysenPSAmef-PSAKete whakamātautau tere mō te tirotiro wawe. Mena he hiahia tōu, nau mai whakapiri mai ki a mātou mō ētahi atu kōrero.