Another test is done on a blood sample to determine the level of a protein (prostate-specific antigen or PSA) produced by prostate cells. The PSA test may indicate a person has a higher chance of having prostate cancer but controversies about the test exist (see following slide). The patien...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain University of Adelaide research shows that the results of the most widely used test for prostate cancer may be affected by obesity. With increasing prevalence of obesity in high-income countries, this study published by the Society for Endocrinology, has important implicati...
Probability of prostate cancerThis article summarizes the experience and results of different prostate carcinoma screening projects using total prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and percent free PSA as the initial test.The twelve projects studied included: (1) a mass screening study using PSA as the ...
Proclarix reliably identifies high-grade prostate cancer Accessible Proclarix is easily performed at your local laboratory Clear answers on unclear PSA results Today, the initial step to diagnose prostate cancer is by testing PSA together with a digital rectal examination (DRE). The PSA test is a...
Results Prostate cancer was detected in 268 (35.3%) of 760 patients. cPSA was greater than 8.3 ng/mL (equivalent to 10.0 ng/mL tPSA) in 46.6% of the men with cancer. The area under the curve for cPSA (0.741) was significantly better than that for tPSA (0.721, P <0.001). At a ...
Proclarix reliably identifies high-grade prostate cancer Accessible Proclarix is easily performed at your local laboratory Clear answers on unclear PSA results Today, the initial step to diagnose prostate cancer is by testing PSA together with a digital rectal examination (DRE). The PSA test is a...
Proclarix reliably identifies high-grade prostate cancer Accessible Proclarix is easily performed at your local laboratory Clear answers on unclear PSA results Today, the initial step to diagnose prostate cancer is by testing PSA together with a digital rectal examination (DRE). The PSA test is a...
RESULTS: PCA3 >20 and >35, PSA F/T ≤15%, ≤20% and ≤25% identified 25, 21, 18, 23 and 26 out 27 cancer, respectively. PCA3 cut-off of 20 demonstrated the best accuracy with an AUC-ROC curve of 0.73. CONCLUSION: The NPV equal to 88.9% suggests to use PCA3 cut-off 20 as...
p pBackground/p pThe role of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing in the early detection of prostate cancer is controversial. Current UK policy stipulates that any man who wishes to have a PSA test should have access to the test, provided he has been given full information about the ben...
The gleason scale is an important diagnostic tool to assess the progression of prostate cancer. If yourPSA test resultsand/or DRE (digital rectal exam) come up positive, the next course of action is usually a prostate biopsy (surgical removal of a small section of prostate cells). ...