[PDF] from racgp.org.auT Brett - Australian Family Physician, 2011 - racgp.org.au Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a glycoprotein produced solely by the prostate. Its function is to liquefy semen. Small amounts leak into the bloodstream, where it can be measured. Prostate specific antigen is tissue-specific but not cancer-specific. Elevated levels can occur in ... Related articles - View as HTML - All 3 versions
LE Pater, KW Hart, BJ Blonigen… - American Journal of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com Background: Recent studies questioning the benefit of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening have increased the need for evaluating factors contributing to variance in levels and their clinical relevance. An inverse relationship between body mass index (BMI) and PSA has been ... Related articles - All 4 versions
[PDF] from dominiotemporario.comGL Andriole, D Bostwick, OW Brawley… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier Final prostate specific antigen before biopsy and change from month 6 to final prostate specific antigen performed better for the diagnosis of Gleason score 7–10 tumors in men who received dutasteride vs placebo as assessed by the area under the ROC curves (0.700 vs 0.650, p ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - All 7 versions
IF San Francisco, L Werner, MM Regan… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier Of the cohort 30% progressed during a median of 2.4 years. Three multivariate analyses were performed. The first analysis used variables only at diagnosis biopsy and revealed that prostate specific antigen density greater than 0.08 ng/ml/cc and prostate cancer family history ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 7 versions
[HTML] from nih.govWJ Catalona, AW Partin, MG Sanda… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Author Affiliations: Department of Urology (Dr. Catalona), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, Illinois; Department of Urology (Drs Partin and Loeb) and Pathology (Drs Chan and Sokoll), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Drs Partin, Loeb, Chan, ...