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Prostate News Archive

29-Apr-2007

  • Test improves prostate cancer diagnosis (UPI)

    U.S. researchers say an experimental blood test for prostate cancer may detect more tumors and reduce unnecessary biopsies.


  • A Promising New Screen for Prostate Cancer (US News & World Report)

    The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, used to screen for prostate cancer, is imperfect. It often flags conditions that turn out to be benign, resulting in unnecessary biopsies for more than a million men every year, and it misses other cases of cancer entirely. So the search is on for a better way to find the disease and avoid needless bother and pain for those who don't have it.


  • New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer (MedicineNet.com)

    Title: New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer Category: Health News Created: 4/27/2007 Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2007


  • A Better Blood Test For Prostate Cancer (Medical News Today)

    New studies of a blood protein recently identified at Johns Hopkins, early prostate cancer antigen-2 (EPCA-2), may change the way men are screened for prostate cancer - a disease that kills tens of thousands of men every year. Current standards of screening and testing for prostate cancer focus on the blood protein prostate-specific antigen (PSA) along with a digital rectal examination. [click ...


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