© 1999 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 13, 1108-1110,
July 7, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
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PSA as a Treatment Marker for Prostate Cancer?
Since the use of prostate specific antigen testing for prostate cancer exploded in the late 1980s, PSA has made the diagnosis and treatment of the disease more complex. In the past few years, the PSA test has played an even more pervasive role as a treatment marker, even though its benefits as a detection tool still await the outcome of several randomized clinical trials.
Indeed, of the 54 abstracts presented at the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology
meeting that dealt with prostate cancer,