New blood test greatly reduces false-positives in prostate cancer screening

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 12:35 in Health & Medicine

A new blood test used in combination with a conventional prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening sharply increases the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis, and could eliminate tens of thousands of unneeded, painful, and costly prostate biopsies annually, according to a study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...

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