Serum prostate-specific antigen in a urological outpatient clinic: Efficacy of age-specific and prostate-volume-specific reference range in detection of prostate cancer

Japanese Journal of Urology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 612-617

  Takahashi, Chihiro ^a   Miyagawa, Ikuo ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Prostate volume; PSA

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0030852635     PISSN: 00215287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5980/jpnjurol1989.88.612     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Babaian, R.J., Camps, J.L., Frangos, D.N., Ramirez, E., Tenney, D.M., Hasell, J.S. and H. A.: Monoclonal prostate specific antigen in untreated prostate cancer : Relationship to clinical stage and grade. Cancer, 67, 2200-2206, 1991.
2. Lang, P.H., Ercole, C.J and Vessella, R.L.: Tumor markers in the follow-up of initial therapy of prostate cancer. in tumor Markers in Prostate Cancer, p16-23, P.H. Lang., Excerpta Medica, New York, 1986.
3. Nishiya, M., Miller, G.J., Lookner, D.H. and Crawford E.D.: Prostate specific antigen density in patients with histologically proven prostate carcinoma. Cancer, 74, 3002-3009, 1994.
4. Oeateling, J., Jacobsen, S J., Chute, C.G., Guess, H.A., Girman, C.J., Panser, L.A. and Lieber, M. M.: Serum Prostate-specific antigen in a comunity-based population of healthy men : Establishment of age-specific reference ranges. J.A.M.A., 270, 860-864, 1993.
5. Rommel, F.M., Agusta, V.E., Breslin, J.A., Huffnagle, H.W., Pohl, C.E., Sieber, P.R. and Stahl, C.A.,: The use of prostate specific antigen and prostate specific antigen density in the diagnosis of prostate cancer in a community based urology practice. J Urol., 151, 88-93, 1994.
6. Dalkin, B.L., Ahmann, F.R., and Kopp, J-B.: Prostate specific antigen levels in men older than 50years without clinical evidence of prostatic carcinoma. J. Urol., 150, 1837-1839, 1993.
7. Crawford, E.D.: Report on the 1993 Prostate Cancer Awareness Week. Read at Annual Meeting of American Urological Association, Sanfrancisco, Calfornia, May, p14-19, 1994
8. Imai, K., Ichinose, Y., Kubota, Y., Yamanaka, H., Sato, J., Saitoh, M., Watanabe, H. and Ohe, H.: Clinical significance of prostate specific antigen for early stage prostate cancer detection. Jpn. J. Clin. Oncol., 24, 160-165, 1994.
9. Oesterling, J.E., Jacobsen, S.J. and Cooner, W. H.: The use of age-specific reference ranges for serum prostate specific antigen in men 60years old or older. J. Urol., 153, 1160-1163, 1995.
10. Epstein, J.I., Walsh, P.C. and Brendler, C.B.: Radical prostatectomy for impalpable prostate cancer : The Johns Hopkins experience with tumors found on transurethral resection (stage T1A and T1B) and on needle biopsy (stage T1C). J. Urol , 152, 1721-1729, 1994.