PSA - creating more Patient Stress and Anxiety than usual!

In the past few weeks we noticed some strangeness appearing in the PSA reports from one of our major pathology providers here in Australia. Dorevitch Pathology had started reporting PSA levels using BOTH the Siemens Atellica assay, AND the Abbott Alinity assay on the same blood sample. So patients were turning up with two PSA results for the same sample - and were these the same?? Afraid not! Sometimes the differences were huge, leading to much "Patient Stress and Anxiety". So we decided to ...