New Blood Test Greatly Reduces False-positives In Prostate Cancer Screening
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 20:28
in Health & Medicine
A new blood test used in combination with a conventional prostate-specific antigen screening sharply increases the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis, and could eliminate tens of thousands of unneeded, painful, and costly prostate biopsies annually.
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