[PSA and blood test diagnostics of prostate cancer]

Duodecim. 2015;131(17):1547-52.
[Article in Finnish]

Abstract

Gleason grading of tumor biopses is the only method to distinguish clinically significant prostate cancer. Local cancer is usually symptomless, and men would benefit from functional screening. The aim of improving blood test diagnostics is to find those for whom it is profitable on the basis of blood test to proceed to biopsies. Overdiagnosis would be simultaneously avoided. In blood test diagnostics, established use is made only of the levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and free PSA. New methods for blood test diagnosis are "Prostate Health Index" and the four-kallikrein panel.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Biomarkers, Tumor / blood*
  • Biopsy
  • Early Detection of Cancer
  • Hematologic Tests / methods*
  • Humans
  • Kallikreins / blood*
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Grading
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen / blood*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / blood*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • Kallikreins
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen