Nature Reviews Urology - The introduction of WHO standards for PSA assays is a step forward for improving the comparability of these tests. Our current clinical decision limits, however, were ...
Should urologists embrace POC testing for the office? If so, what problems might arise if patients can, for example, test their own prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels at home, on demand?
Researchers at Vanderbilt have found a simple at home urine test for prostate cancer screening is highly accurate. The ...
The urinary 18-gene MyProstateScore 2.0 (MPS2) test can detect clinically significant prostate cancer and reduce the frequency of biopsies compared with the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial risk ...
A recent study from researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan has demonstrated that a simple at-home urine test can accurately screen for prostate cancer. The findings, ...
The 18-gene MyProstateScore 2.0 (MPS2) test using first-catch non-digital rectal examination (DRE) urine is highly sensitive ...
The urine test detected 94% of aggressive prostate cancers, a rate more sensitive than that of PSA blood tests, researchers ...
Currently, the US Preventative Services Task Force recommends that prostate cancer screening using the PSA test should be an individual decision for men aged 55 to 65. Urologists are an important ...
The exciting new results, published in The Journal of Urology ... this non-invasive urine test would have allowed patients with an elevated PSA to avoid 34-53% of unnecessary biopsies." ...
The Government has also announced a landmark trial to test screening in men at higher risk of the disease. One Europe-wide study published last year found that marked differences in PSA testing and ...
GenesisCare has launched its first self-referral mpMRI prostate cancer screening service at its Oxford outpatient centre.