San Diego Psychologist: New Type of Test May Help Predict Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness
At the recent annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, John Hopkins University researchers reported that a new type of PSA (Prostate-Specific Androgen) test may help predict which types of prostate cancers are more aggressive than others; helping patients determine the urgency of treatment.
Robert W. Veltri, Ph.D, principle researcher and associate professor of urology and oncology at Hopkins stated, “What we have shown is that using the Prostate Health Index and tissue DNA measurement is informative in separating out patients whose cancers are likely to progress vs. those that are not likely to progress.”
Available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97772.html.
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist