Workshop on prostate markers
โ Scribed by Gerald P. Murphy; Alan Partin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 65 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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Antiserum to a human prostate-specific antigen was raised in a rabbit and utilized by immunoperoxidase staining to evaluate its potential value as a diagnostic histologic marker for tumors of prostatic origin. All primary and metastatic prostatic malignancies reacted positively, whereas nonprostatic
## BACKGROUND. Serum TPS (tissue polypeptide-specific antigen) has been observed to be characteristic of carcinoma proliferation, and increased levels of TPS seem to be closely related to tumor progression. In this study we wanted to evaluate the importance of the tumormarker TPS in the diagnosis