It’s been a tough couple weeks for medical tradition. First we had all women being warned their calcium supplements may do more harm than good; now the medical community is in a tizzy over the new recommendations against using the PSA as a screening test for prostate cancer in men. ...
The widely known PSA blood test for prostate cancer in men may get a second life as a much-needed new test for breast cancer, the most common form of cancer in women worldwide, scientists are reporting in a new study in the ACS journalAnalytical Chemistry. Chien Chou and colleagues say t...
The present data indicate that simple measurement of serum PSA can be used efficiently as a pre-screening test for prostate cancer in the general population to identify, at a low cost, the subpopulation of men at a much greater risk of having prostate cancer, and who should then be ...
He said: “In the BVI, we have had a high rate of cancer, especially breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. We have also had some instances of breast cancer in men in the BVI. We have had four cases with only one survival.” “So during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, m...
The researchers calculated their polygenic risk score, which is based on 130 genetic variations in the DNA code linked to prostate cancer. Those with the highest risk scores - 588 men who carried many of these variants - were invited for further screening. ...
The ExoDx Prostate Test provides a risk assessment for finding clinically significant prostate cancer that otherwise relies on biopsy in men with an elevated PSA. Introducing the ExoDx Prostate (EPI) Test. The EPI Test provides a simple, painless, and accurate answer to inform the prostate biopsy...
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However screening of prostate cancer in all men regardless of symptoms must wait for a larger study looking at long term survival benefit, cost-effectiveness of screening, and lastly, quality of life of patients on a screening program. 展开 关键词: Prostate cancer Prevalence PSA IPSS ...
MyProstateScore test and other commercial tests currently available," he explained. "They were detecting prostate cancer, but in general they were not doing as good a job in detecting high-grade, or clinically significant, prostate cancer. The impetus for this new test is to address this unmet...
A new study from experts at the University of Exeter has found that a widely used test for prostate cancer may leave Black men at increased risk of overdiagnosis.