Prostate Cancer
Obesity-linked high blood volumes render PSA prostate cancer test less effective, study suggests
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, December 3rd, 2007
The new research, combining data from more than 13,000 prostate cancer patients at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and elsewhere, could eventually affect the reliability of scores of other blood tests for cancer and other diseases in obese people, or at least alter the way those tests are analyzed, investigators say.
The predictive value of the PSA test depends on...
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