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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Prostate Cancer
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Studies, Diagnostic Procedures, Treatment, Medications, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Follow-Up, Prognosis, Prevention, Screening for prostate cancer, When to Refer, References,
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Topics Discussed: prostate cancer.
Excerpt: | |  Screening tests currently available include DRE, serum PSA, TRUS
Detection rates with DRE are low, varying from 1.5% to 7.0% TRUS has low specificity (and therefore high biopsy rate) TRUS increases the detection rate very little when compared with the combined use of DRE and PSA testing To improve the performance of PSA as a screening test, alternative methods for its use have been developed | | – Establishment of age- and race-specific reference ranges – Measurement of free serum and protein-bound levels of PSA – Calculation of changes in PSA over time (PSA velocity) |
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