Journal article
Early prostate-specific antigen changes and the diagnosis and prognosis of prostate cancer.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To delineate how recent findings on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) can improve prediction of risk, detection, and prediction of clinical endpoints of prostate cancer (PCa). RECENT FINDINGS: The widely used PSA cut-point of 4.0 ng/ml increasingly appears arbitrary, but no cut-point achieves both high sensitivity and high specificity. The accuracy of detecting PCa can be increased by additional predictive factors and a combinations of markers. Evidence implies that a panel o...
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- Journal:
- Current opinion in urology
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 221-226
- Publication date:
- 2009-05-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1473-6586
- ISSN:
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0963-0643
- Source identifiers:
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365920
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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- pubs:365920
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- 2013-11-16
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- 2009
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