Prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer: prediction, detection and monitoring.
Testing for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has profoundly affected the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. PSA testing has enabled physicians to detect prostate tumours while they are still small, low-grade and localized. This very ability has, however, created controversy over whether we a...
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| description | Testing for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has profoundly affected the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. PSA testing has enabled physicians to detect prostate tumours while they are still small, low-grade and localized. This very ability has, however, created controversy over whether we are now diagnosing and treating insignificant cancers. PSA testing has also transformed the monitoring of treatment response and detection of disease recurrence. Much current research is directed at establishing the most appropriate uses of PSA testing and at developing methods to improve on the conventional PSA test. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5de95958-13d7-43ac-aa99-717b8cc8d5bb2022-03-26T17:37:13ZProstate-specific antigen and prostate cancer: prediction, detection and monitoring.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:5de95958-13d7-43ac-aa99-717b8cc8d5bbEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2008Lilja, HUlmert, DVickers, ATesting for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has profoundly affected the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. PSA testing has enabled physicians to detect prostate tumours while they are still small, low-grade and localized. This very ability has, however, created controversy over whether we are now diagnosing and treating insignificant cancers. PSA testing has also transformed the monitoring of treatment response and detection of disease recurrence. Much current research is directed at establishing the most appropriate uses of PSA testing and at developing methods to improve on the conventional PSA test. |
| spellingShingle | Lilja, H Ulmert, D Vickers, A Prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer: prediction, detection and monitoring. |
| title | Prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer: prediction, detection and monitoring. |
| title_full | Prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer: prediction, detection and monitoring. |
| title_fullStr | Prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer: prediction, detection and monitoring. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer: prediction, detection and monitoring. |
| title_short | Prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer: prediction, detection and monitoring. |
| title_sort | prostate specific antigen and prostate cancer prediction detection and monitoring |
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