Prostate Cancer (Screening)
New Version Of Blood Test Clarifies Men's Cancer Risk
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 25th, 1998
Results of a large, multicenter study led by a researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, suggest that a new version of the screening test clarifies the prostate cancer risk of these men and provides a single cutoff value that can detect 95 percent of prostate cancers. The results were published May 20, 1998, in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Lead author William J. Catalona, MD, professor of surgery and...
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