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Steven L. Chang, Joseph C. Presti
20100101
2010 Feb 1
Urology
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Urology. 2010 Feb;75(2)445, Steven L. Chang, Joseph C. Presti
The reviewer makes a compelling argument that uPSA assays may in fact be useful for all patients after surgery rather than applied to patients who have developed a biochemical recurrence. The work by Slawin et al1 not only suggests that uPSA values represent a clinical tool to predict future BCR but also potentially identifies those patients who will continue to have a rising PSA beyond 0.2 ng/mL—men who nadir at a uPSA of 0.03 ng/mL or greater. Although this report is contradictory to an earlier...