Diagnostic Impacts of Clinical Laboratory Based p2PSA Indexes on any Grade, Gleason Grade Group 2 or Greater, or 3 or Greater Prostate Cancer and Prostate Specific Antigen below 10 ng/ml

2020 ◽  
Vol 203 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Kazuto Ito ◽  
Akira Yokomizo ◽  
Shoji Tokunaga ◽  
Gaku Arai ◽  
Mikio Sugimoto ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Murtala Abubakar ◽  
SaniMohammed Shehu ◽  
SaadAliyu Ahmed ◽  
AlmustaphaAliyu Liman ◽  
KaroChristopher Akpobi ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (7_suppl) ◽  
pp. 289-289
Author(s):  
Jason Homza ◽  
John T. Nawrocki ◽  
Harmar D. Brereton ◽  
Christopher A. Peters

289 Background: Salvage radiotherapy (SRT) may be employed as a potentially curative intervention for patients experiencing biochemical failure (serum prostate-specific antigen [PSA] ≥ 0.2 ng/mL) after prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer. Patients not showing a favorable response to SRT alone may require additional therapies and may benefit from earlier identification of this need. Methods: 131 consecutive patients received SRT during the timeframe of this study. 76 were deemed eligible based on the following criteria: prostatic adenocarcinoma diagnosis receiving SRT, no clinical evidence of metastasis, no hormone use prior to/during SRT, serum PSA measurement halfway through SRT, and minimum follow-up time of 3 months. Median follow-up time was 51.6 months. Eligible patients were divided into three groups based on PSA response by the midpoint of treatment: no change, decrease, or increase in PSA. The primary endpoint of the study was clinical failure (measured from SRT completion), defined as serum PSA value ≥0.2ng/mL above the post-radiotherapy nadir, initiation of androgen deprivation therapy, development of bone metastasis, or death from prostate cancer. Results: 13.1% experienced no change in PSA halfway through SRT (group 0), 68.4% of patients experienced a decrease (group 1), 18.4% experienced an increase (group 2). Four-year freedom from clinical failure was 60.0% for group 0, 58.3% for group 1, and 41.7% for group 2. Median time to clinical failure was 71.7 months for group 1, 26.8 months for group 2, and was not reached for group 0. Pairwise multiple comparison demonstrated a significant difference in four-year freedom from clinical failure between groups 1 and 2 (p = 0.036). Conclusions: These data strongly suggest that changes in PSA are apparent midway through SRT and are associated with 4-year freedom from clinical failure. Further study is warranted to determine whether mid-treatment PSA during SRT may be used to identify a subset of patients that may benefit from treatment intensification.


2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Pejcic ◽  
J. Hadzi-Djokic ◽  
B.B. Markovic ◽  
H.M. Maksimovic ◽  
M. Acimovic ◽  
...  

Objective: To present the case of T2 prostate cancer (PCa) mimicking disseminated PCa that was successfully treated with radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP). Patient and the method: The patient had prostate specific antigen (PSA) level higher than 30ng/ml and multiple atypical lesions on bone scan. TRUS guided biopsy proved small PCa, only in 1/18 biopsy cores, with Gleason grade 6 (3+3). Bone lesions appeared to be posttraumatic. Result: The patient underwent RRP; six months after surgery there is no evidence of the disease. Conclusion: Serum PSA level is the sum of cancer activity, normal and BHP tissue production, as well as the result of other pathological conditions, like prostatitis. In some cases, inflammation can be responsible for high PSA level and over-staging.


2020 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. e1289
Author(s):  
Adrian J. Waisman Malaret* ◽  
Kehao Zhu ◽  
Yingye Zheng ◽  
Lisa Newcomb ◽  
Peter Chang ◽  
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2001 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A Stamey

Abstract Recent information on the relationship of serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to prostate cancer and new reports on death rates in men warrant a reassessment of how we diagnose and treat prostate cancer. We now know for the first time that the annual death rate from prostate cancer in men ≥65 years of age is only 226 per 100 000 men. At least 40 000 of 100 000 men over age 65 (40%) have invasive prostate cancer as judged by examination of prostates in 3- to 4-mm step-sections. Thus, only 1 of every 177 men 65 years of age or older (226 in 40 000) with invasive prostate cancer dies annually from his cancer. Serum PSA between 2 and 10 μg/L is used almost universally as an indication to biopsy the prostate. When 10–20 biopsies are commonly taken, it is not surprising that ∼40% of men are biopsy-positive for prostate cancer. Despite this reliance on serum PSA as an indication for biopsy, data at Stanford show no clinically useful relationship between preoperative serum PSA (in the range 2–10 mg/L) and the volume of Gleason grade 4/5 cancer or the volume of Gleason grades 3, 2, and 1 cancer, nor can we show any useful relationship of such preoperative PSA concentrations (2–10 μg/L) to biochemical PSA failure rates after radical prostatectomy. We urgently need a better serum marker for prostate cancer. Because PSA biochemical failure rates after radical prostatectomy are directly proportional to the amount of Gleason grade 4/5 cancer in the prostate, a serum marker of Gleason grade 4/5 carcinoma could be ideal.


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