Nanoparticle PSA test predicts if prostate cancer will return

Thursday, June 3, 2010 - 08:50 in Health & Medicine

Men who have just had their cancerous prostate gland removed have one pressing question for their doctors: Am I cured? But conventional tests haven't been sensitive enough to provide a concrete answer. Current tests that measure the level of protein called PSA (prostate-specific antigen), which signals the presence of cancer, often detect no PSA, only to have cancer return in up to 40 percent of the cases...

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