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Article: Study: Complexed PSA test more accurate than traditional total PSA test.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- November 4, 2003
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2003 NOV 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A major study on detecting prostate cancer indicates that measurement of serum concentration of complexed prostate-specific antigen (cPSA) is more accurate than the total PSA (tPSA) test currently used by most physicians.
The study showed the cPSA test is more predictive of prostate cancer and results in fewer false diagnoses and unnecessary biopsies compared to the traditional tPSA test.
The study was published in the November issue of the Journal of Urology.
"These findings are important because they suggest that use of the cPSA test can decrease the number of unnecessary prostate-cancer biopsies ...