Ferritin is highly expressed in many cancer types. Although a few studies have reported an association between high serum ferritin levels and an increased risk of prostate cancer, the results are inconsistent. Therefore, we performed a large case-control study consisting of 2002 prostate cancer patients and 951 control patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). We found that high ferriti...

BACKGROUND Finasteride was introduced to treat patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) recently, and it has shown its effects in reduction of prostate volume and decrease of prostate-specific antigen (PSA). We want to know how and how much does finasteride affect prostate volume as well as PSA and prostate-specific antigen density (PSAD), since PSA and PSAD are widely used as screening...

Introduction Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is of paramount importance as a diagnostic tool for the detection, staging, and monitoring of patients with prostate cancer. Because PSA is organ but not disease specific, it has certain limitations as a screening test for prostate cancer. After radical prostatectomy (RP), however, PSA is an excellent tumor marker with a high sensitivity and sp...

BACKGROUND Many physicians now use serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to screen for prostate cancer in asymptomatic men. Whether or not a prostate biopsy should also be performed depends on an accurate definition of what constitutes a normal PSA value. Until recently, studies conducted to establish normal serum PSA values have involved study populations that have included few African-America...

background: recently, the development of new biomarkers as prognostic and predictive markers in prostate cancer has been crucial. objectives: this study was aimed to determine whether serum vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) levels would be a prognostic marker or risk assessment factor in patients with prostate cancer and to investigate whether it could differentiate cancerous tissue fro...

The value of the free-to-total serum prostate-specific antigen (f/t PSA) ratio was compared with that of the total prostate specific antigen (tPSA) value for the prediction of clinical stage in patients with prostate cancer. The f/t PSA ratio was obtained from the frozen sera of 56 untreated patients with histologically proven BPH and 78 patients with prostate cancer. The clinical stage was org...

discoidin domain receptor (ddr) is a new member of the receptor tyrosine kinase family. there are two isoforms of discoidin domain receptor (ddr), ddr1 and ddr2. these receptors play a major role in the adhesion, motility and cell proliferation. due to the important role of ddr2 in the development of tumor extension, this receptor is pivotal in the field of carcinogenesis. the aim of this study...

INTRODUCTION Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is still the simplest marker for early diagnosis and follow-up of prostate cancer. Because racial differences in PSA levels have been found, we performed this study to determine the reference level of serum PSA for men in Yasuj, in southwest Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Men aged 40 years and older who had been referred to any of the Yasuj hosp...

BACKGROUND Factors affecting serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men are clinically important, but apart from effects mediated through the androgen receptor, they are poorly understood. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether microRNA (miRNA) affects the synthesis and serum levels of PSA. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Reporter assays with PSA and KLK2 3' untranslated regions (UTRs)...