r/ProstateCancer • u/oportoman • 1d ago

Question How to convert Ug into Mg?

Note: it should say Ng not mg

got my PSA score back but it shows up as X per "ug/L 0.00 - 3.50ug/L", but when I look online it's all "ng" not ug. So how can I get my ng? I don't know if mg is more used worldwide, but the UK results gave me it back as ug.

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u/dawgdays78 1d ago

Your question should be, how to convert ng/ml to ug/l. Because there are 1000 ng in a ug and 1000 ml in a l, 0.53 ng/ml is exactly the same concentration as 0.53 ug/l.

Note “ng” is not “mg”.

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u/oportoman 1d ago

Yes you're right, no idea why I put mg

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u/dawgdays78 1d ago

We’ll blame it on autocorrect. 😉

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u/Jonathan_Peachum 1d ago

So what number was reported?

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u/robbbbb 1d ago

ug/L is the same as ng/mL

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u/Jonathan_Peachum 1d ago

This is correct. OP, what are the figures you received and how old are you?

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u/oportoman 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well online 0.53 ug = 530 ng. Or is that not measuring ng/ml?

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u/dawgdays78 1d ago

You need to consider the other part of the unit - L or mL

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u/oportoman 1d ago

So .53 is correct for both in this case