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A personalised approach to prostate cancer screening based on genotyping of risk founder alleles.
British journal of cancer - 25 Jun 2013
Cybulski C, Wokołorczyk D, Kluźniak W, Kashyap A, Gołąb A, Słojewski M, Sikorski A, Puszyński M, Soczawa M, Borkowski T, Borkowski A, Antczak A, Przybyła J, Sosnowski M, Małkiewicz B, Zdrojowy R, Domagała P, Piotrowski K, Menkiszak J, Krzystolik K, Gronwald J, Jakubowska A, Górski B, Dębniak T, Masojć B, Huzarski T, Muir K R, Lophatananon A, Lubiński J, Narod S A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: To evaluate whether genotyping for 18 prostate cancer founder variants is helpful in identifying high-risk individuals and for determining optimal screening regimens. METHODS: A serum PSA level was measured and a digital rectal examination (DRE) was performed on 2907 unaffected men aged 40-90. Three hundred and twenty-three men with an elevated PSA (≥4 ng ml⁻¹) or an abnormal DRE underwent a prostate...
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