Intact and Internally Cleaved Free Prostate-Specific Antigen in Patients With Prostate Cancer With Different Pathologic Stages and Grades

: Peltola MT, Niemela P, Vaisanen V, Viitanen T, Alanen K, Nurmi M, Pettersson K

Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC

: 2011

: Urology

: UROLOGY

: ARTN 1009.e1

: 4

: 77

: 4

: 1009.e1

: 1009.e8

: 8

: 0090-4295

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2010.11.007

CONCLUSIONS Lower proportions of fPSA-I and fPSA-N to total PSA were associated with a more advanced cancer stage and grade. A long-term follow-up study and a comparison with currently used clinical methods are needed to evaluate the usefulness of the analytes as prognostic markers for cancer aggressiveness in individual patients. UROLOGY 77: 1009.e1-1009.e8, 2011. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc.