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  2. Prostate cancer screening - Wikipedia

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    The 4Kscore combines total, free and intact PSA together with human kallikrein 2. [46] It is used to try to determine the risk of a Gleason score greater than 6. [46] The Prostate Health Index (PHI) is a PSA-based blood test for early prostate cancer screening. It may be used to determine when a biopsy is needed.

  3. Andrew Vickers - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Julian Vickers (born 11 February 1967) [1] [2] is a biostatistician and attending research methodologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Since 2013, he has also been professor of public health at Weill Cornell Medical College. [3] He is the statistical editor for the peer-reviewed journal European Urology. [4]

  4. Prostate cancer staging - Wikipedia

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    From the AJCC 7th edition [5] and UICC 7th edition. [6]Stage I disease is cancer that is found incidentally in a small part of the sample when prostate tissue is removed for other reasons, such as benign prostatic hyperplasia, and the cells closely resemble normal cells and the gland feels normal to the examining finger.

  5. Gleason grading system - Wikipedia

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    The Gleason grading system is used to help evaluate the prognosis of men with prostate cancer using samples from a prostate biopsy.Together with other parameters, it is incorporated into a strategy of prostate cancer staging which predicts prognosis and helps guide therapy.

  6. What Your PSA Test Says About Your Prostate - AOL

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  7. Prostatic acid phosphatase - Wikipedia

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    PAP was used to monitor and assess progression of prostate cancer until the introduction of prostate specific antigen (PSA), which has now largely displaced it. Subsequent work, suggested that it has a role in prognosticating intermediate and high-risk prostate cancer, and led to renewed interest in it as a biomarker .

  8. Cancer screening - Wikipedia

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    When PSA screening began in the 1980s, cases of prostate cancer rose by 26% between 1986-2005, with the most affected age group being men under the age of 50. [37] Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease , and the cancer will grow aggressively in approximately 1 in 3 cases.

  9. Prostate-specific antigen - Wikipedia

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    Prostate-specific antigen (PSA), also known as gamma-seminoprotein or kallikrein-3 (KLK3), P-30 antigen, is a glycoprotein enzyme encoded in humans by the KLK3 gene.PSA is a member of the kallikrein-related peptidase family and is secreted by the epithelial cells of the prostate gland in men and the paraurethral glands in women.