COMPARISON OF PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN RATIOS - RESOLVING THE UROLOGIST'S DILEMMA IN NIGERIAN MEN WITH PROSTATE CANCER AND BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA
Author(s): Eyam Sunday Eyam; Eyam Lilian Eberechukwu; EneAsuquo Bassey; OgarekpeYeonun Mba; BabatopeOluwakorede Ayodele
Institute(s): 1,3 Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, UNICAL, Calabar; 2 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, UNICAL, Calabar; 4,5 Department of Chemical Pathology, UCTH, Calabar
Volume 5 / Issue 1
Abstract
Differentiating prostrate diseases using PSA is difficult because PSA changes are not prostate disease-specific which is the Urologist's dilemma in the diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa) making it necessary to find ways of improving PSA sensitivity. The study analyzed the molecular forms of PSA and compared the ability of their ratios to differentiate between BPH and PCa in Nigerian men.
Number of Pages: 5
Number of Words: 1913
First Page: 27
Last Page: 31