Towards a better Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer: A Review of Prostate Cancer Screening Tests
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Medical Research - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 12
Abstract
Being one of the commonest cancers amongst males, better diagnostic or screening techniques can prevent lot of mortality and morbidity. Prostate cancer is one of the few cancers with better outcome if diagnosed early. Although current screening tests tends to produce more false positives, still they remain mainstay for the better management of prostate cancer. Lot of dilemma surrounds the specificity of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) as an effective tool for screening tool for prostate cancer. Number of other tools like TRUS, MRI, Biopsy, Stockholm 3 Model and Prostate Cancer Antigen 3 are now available for screening and diagnosis of the condition. It is a time to take an integrated approach for reducing the false results. Present article represents various modalities along with their pros and cons available for the diagnosis and screening of prostate cancer.
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Arslaan Javaeed
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