The study revealed a narrow range of PSA testing frequency among other characteristics, which suggests physicians are not tailoring the frequency of testing for each patient. The authors hope these findings may result in new guidelines for PSA monitoring among prostate cancer survivors, with...
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and the PSA test was originally approved by the FDA in 1986 to monitor the progression of prostate cancer in men who had already been diagnosed with the disease. In 1994, FDA approved the PSA test to be used in c...
The selection of the distribution parameters was based on the experimental PSA level data from the validation cohort & 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Disease (2013), 132 – 138 Age-dependent ERG overexpression frequency G Schaefer et al 134 Table 1. Clinicopathological...
Focuses on the prostate specific antigen tests conducted to diagnose prostate cancer among men. Incidence of prostate cancer in the United States; Effect of PSA test usage on the death rate of prostate cancer patients; Advantages and disadvantages of PSA testing; Recommendations before undergoing a ...
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Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a commonly used test to detect prostate cancer. Attention has mostly focused on the use of PSA in screening asymptomatic patients, but the diagnostic accuracy of PSA for prostate cancer in patients with symptoms is less well understood. Methods A systematic data...
Prostate biopsy is required for diagnosis of prostate phosphate buffer 100 mmol/L, pH 6.0; preservative. cancer. The test is further indicated for serial measurement of tPSA to aid in the management of cancer patients. R2 Anti-PSA-Ab~Ru(bpy) (black cap), 1 bottle, 10 mL: The electro...
This is plausible because the high prevalence of prostate cancer found incidentally at autopsy or at transurethral resection of the prostate makes the reported incidence rates dependent on the frequency of medical procedures that increase the chance of finding such latent disease (5). To examine this...
(0.63–0.99) 0.04 Prostate cancer-specific mortality rs11902236 rs4857841 2 TAF1B:GRHL1 3 EEFSEC A A 0.34 0.78 (0.62–0.98) 0.03 0.31 0.78 (0.62–0.98) 0.04 Abbreviations: Chr ¼ chromosome; CI ¼ confidence interval; HR ¼ hazard ratios; MAF ¼ minor allele frequency; SNP ¼ ...