Prostate cancer: is PSA velocity useful?
When a patient presents for assessment of prostate cancer risk, do serial measurements of PSA provide more-useful information than determination of a single PSA concentration? The authors of a new systematic review contend that the answer to this question is 'no'. Stacy Loeb cautions against hasty abandonment of PSA kinetics.
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D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen / Q000097:blood*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis
D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen