New finding suggests prostate biopsy is not always necessary
Sunday, November 8, 2009 - 06:28
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men may be caused by a hormone normally occurring in the body, and are not necessarily a predictor of the need for a prostate biopsy...
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