PREDICTORS OF SUBSEQUENT PROSTATE CANCER IN MEN WITH A PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN OF 2.6 TO 4.0 NG/ML AND AN INITIALLY NEGATIVE BIOPSY
- 1 August 2005
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 174 (2) , 500-504
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ju.0000165203.40973.0f
Abstract
Purpose: Almost 75% of men with a prostate specific antigen (PSA) of 2.6 to 4.0 ng/ml have no evidence of prostate cancer on biopsy. Deciding whether and when to repeat the biopsy is challe...Keywords
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