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If the examination suggests anomalies, a PSA test is performed. If an elevated PSA level is found, a follow-up test is then performed. [2] A 2018 review recommended against primary care screening for prostate cancer with DRE due to the lack of evidence of the effectiveness of the practice. [23]
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.
The International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) is a domain-specific extension of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems for tumor diseases. This classification is widely used by cancer registries. It is currently in its third revision (ICD-O-3). ICD-10 includes a list of ...
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
Prostate biopsy is a procedure in which small hollow needle-core samples are removed from a man's prostate gland to be examined for the presence of prostate cancer.It is typically performed when the result from a PSA blood test is high. [1]
[15] [16] PSA levels over 10 ng/mL indicate an even higher risk: over half of men in this group develop prostate cancer. [15] Men with high PSA levels are often recommended to repeat the blood test four to six weeks later, as PSA levels can fluctuate unrelated to prostate cancer. [17]
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56318 Ensembl ENSG00000014257 ENSMUSG00000032561 UniProt P15309 Q8CE08 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001099 NM_001134194 NM_001292037 NM_019807 NM_207668 RefSeq (protein) NP_001090 NP_001127666 NP_001278966 NP_062781 NP_997551 Location (UCSC) Chr 3: 132.32 – 132.37 Mb Chr 9: 104.17 – 104.21 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), also prostatic ...