Enhanced discrimination of benign from malignant prostatic disease by selective measurements of cleaved forms of urokinase receptor in serum.

BACKGROUND: Early detection of prostate cancer (PCa) centers on measurements of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), but current testing practices suffer from lack of specificity and generate many unnecessary prostate biopsies. Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) is present in blood...

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Autors principals: Piironen, T, Haese, A, Huland, H, Steuber, T, Christensen, I, Brünner, N, Danø, K, Høyer-Hansen, G, Lilja, H
Format: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicat: 2006