How is the association between urinary prostate cancer antigen 3 (PCA3) levels and Gleason scores in patients suspicious of prostate cancer?

DISCUSSION: Generally, urinary PCA3 test is indicated as a non-invasive method to improve the specificity of prostate cancer diagnosis and its potential predictive value was studied in numerous clinical researches, but here we found higher PCA3 levels in patients with prostate cancer than in patients with and other prostate problems. We conclude that PCA3 functions as a diagnostic test and its changes in prostate cancer need to be further studied in different populations and races. PMID: 31993103 [PubMed]
Source: International Journal of Physiology, Pathophysiology and Pharmacology - Category: Physiology Tags: Int J Physiol Pathophysiol Pharmacol Source Type: research