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Prostate-specific antigen and related isoforms in the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer

In English

Författare

  • Alexander Haese
  • Markus Graefen
  • Hartwig Huland
  • Hans Lilja

Summary, in English

Despite its unparalleled merits for prostate cancer detection and staging, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is not a marker for prostate cancer only, but also is expressed in benign conditions. For early detection, limitations of PSA are obvious. Its widespread use has led to an extensive amount of expensive and often unnecessary diagnostic procedures associated with significant morbidity. Total PSA derivatives may enhance the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis. The ratio of free-to-total PSA improves specificity while maintaining a high sensitivity for prostate cancer detection for men with a total PSA of 2.5 to 10 ng/mL. Human glandular kallikrein also has the potential to be a valuable tool in combination with total and free PSA for early diagnosis of prostate cancer. Complex PSA seems to be a reliable tool to improve specificity at high sensitivity levels in men with suspected prostate cancer (mainly in PSA levels below 4 ng/mL). Newly discovered isoforms of free PSA also may impact early detection of prostate cancer with encouraging preliminary results that warrant further clinical investigation.

Publiceringsår

2004

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

231-240

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Current Urology Reports

Volym

5

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Current Medicine Group

Ämne

  • Medicinal Chemistry

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1527-2737