[Current methods of early diagnosis of prostate cancer]

A V Govorov; A O Vasilyev; A A Shiryaev; S O Sukhikh; A V Sidorenkov; A V Pushkarev; D I Tsiganov; D Yu Pushkar

[Current methods of early diagnosis of prostate cancer]

Urologiia. 2017 Dec:(6):101-106.

[Article in Russian]

Authors

A V Govorov^{1

2

3}, A O Vasilyev^{1

2

3}, A A Shiryaev^{1

2

3}, S O Sukhikh^{1

2

3}, A V Sidorenkov^{1

2

3}, A V Pushkarev^{1

2

3}, D I Tsiganov^{1

2

3}, D Yu Pushkar^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia.
² S.I. Spasokukotsky Municipal Clinical Hospital, Moscow, Russia.
³ Energomashinostroenie Research Institute, N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia.

PMID: 29376605

Abstract

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men, except for lung cancer. Therefore, it is imperative to identify diagnostic methods for early detection of prostate cancer to determine patients from healthy populations, which helps guide a timely treatment at an initial stage of the disease. The article provides an in-depth review of the most current diagnostic biomarkers of prostate cancer, their role in clinical practice as a means of the early detection and screening for prostate cancer.

Keywords: current diagnostic methods; diagnosis; methods of early diagnosis; prostate cancer; screening.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Clinical Laboratory Techniques / methods*
Clinical Laboratory Techniques / trends
Humans
Male
Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnosis*