Prostate specific antigen velocity does not aid prostate cancer detection in men with prior negative biopsy.

• Prostate specific antigen velocity has been proposed as a marker to aid in prostate cancer detection. We determined whether prostate specific antigen velocity could predict repeat biopsy results in men with persistently increased prostate specific antigen after initial negative biopsy.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Urologi och njurmedicin (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Urology and Nephrology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Aged

Biopsy

statistics & numerical data

Humans

Male

Middle Aged

Prostate-Specific Antigen

blood

Prostatic Neoplasms

blood

pathology

Time Factors

prostate-specific antigen

biopsy

prostate

prostatic neoplasms

diagnosis

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)