Prostate specific antigen role and function
โ Scribed by Donna M. Peehl
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 629 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has revolutionized the diagnosis and management of men with prostate cancer. Significant advances have been made since the early development of immunoassays. While PSA is useful for staging and monitoring of established disease, it has shown the greatest utility in th
ated with higher pathologic stage and grade in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP). In earlier studies, serum prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA)
## Background: In an effort to discover new prostate-specific antigens (psas) to enhance our understanding of the functions and behavior of the prostate and the complex processes involved in prostate tumor progression, the structure and function of the psm antigen has been elucidated. ## Methods:
An understanding of the natural history of changes in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) may be valuable as a surrogate view of prostate dynamics, as a method to differentiate between benign and malignant growth, and as a means to assess the use of PSA as a tool for monitoring activity of chemopreventi