Early Diagnosis and Staging.
Författare
Summary, in English
This report reviews developments in the early diagnosis and staging of prostate cancer and updated on the incidence of postate cancer to discuss the pros and cons of population based screening. Refinements and reliability of various diagnosic procedures are described such as PSA testing, transrectal ultrasound, ratio beteen PSA-level and ultrasound measured prostate volume, rate of change of PSA-level, combination factor equations computed by neural network programs to predict likelihood of prostate cancer, artificial neural network analysis of subvisual transrectal ultrasound information, measurements of different PSA-forms of PSA (in particular percent free PSA), and glandular kallikrein 2.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
1999
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
15-18
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases
Volym
2
Issue
S1
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Nature Publishing Group
Ämne
- Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Clinical Chemistry, Malmö
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1476-5608