Prostate Cancer: Update on Early Detection and New Biomarkers

Mo Med. 2018 Mar-Apr;115(2):132-134.

Abstract

Screening and early treatment of prostate cancer (PCa) has recently come under scrutiny due to the rates of overdiagnosis of low risk cancer. Randomized trials, including ERSPC and PLCO, have informed our understanding of the survival benefit provided by systematic PCa screening with serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA). To reduce the number of patients diagnosed with indolent disease, new adjuvant risk stratification tests have become available.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Biomarkers / blood
  • Early Detection of Cancer / trends*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen / blood
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Risk Assessment / trends

Substances

  • Biomarkers
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen