Prostate Cancer

New prostate cancer study findings recently were published by researchers at University of Hamburg, Department of Urology

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 2nd, 2008

A new study, 'Critical assessment of tools to predict clinically insignificant prostate cancer at radical prostatectomy in contemporary men,' is now available. "Overtreatment of prostate cancer (PCa) is a concern, especially in patients who might qualify for the diagnosis of insignificant prostate cancer (IPCa). The ability to identify IPCa prior to definitive therapy was tested," scientists in Hamburg, Germany report.

"In a cohort of 1132 men a nomogram was developed to predict the probability of IPCa. Predictors consisted of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), clinical stage, biopsy Gleason sum, core cancer length and percentage of positive biopsy cores (percent positive...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-09-02)

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