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unusual facts about prostate-specific antigen


Prostate-specific antigen

In the prostate it is present as an inactive pro-form which is activated through the action of KLK2, another kallikrein-related peptidase.


Benu Sen

Sen was undergoing treatment at a private hospital treatment at Barasat near Kolkata, from 7 to 15 April 2011, as he had been suffering from retention of urine due to prostate enlargement and low hemoglobin count due to his previous heart problem with diabetes mellitus.

Bone tumor

Carcinomas of the prostate, breasts, lungs, thyroid, and kidneys are the carcinomas that most commonly metastasize to bone.

Enzalutamide

When LNCaP cells (a prostate cancer cell line) engineered to express elevated levels of AR (as found in patients with advanced prostate cancer) were treated with enzalutamide, the expression of androgen dependent genes PSA and TMPRSS2 was down regulated in contrast to bicalutamide where the expression was upregulated.

Gene D. Cohen

Cohen died at 65 of prostate cancer on November 7, 2009, in Kensington, Maryland.

Gérard Cuny

In October 1958 he participated to the first meeting of the clinical European section of the International Association of Gerontology in Sunderland (England), during which the Nancy school (R. Herbeuval and G. Cuny) will present the "Treatment of prostate cancer and adenoma of the prostate" in the session on "Genito-urinary disturbances in old age."

Granulomatous prostatitis

It is a form of prostatitis, i.e. inflammation of the prostate, resulting from infection (bacterial, viral, or fungal), the BCG therapy, malacoplakia or systemic granulomatous diseases which involve the prostate.

Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers

Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers is distributed and sold online and in book stores through Random House Publisher Services via Other Press Publishing.

Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers is a book written by Dr. Mark Scholz and Ralph Blum.

Olive leaf

Some recent research on the olive leaf has shown its antioxidants to be effective in treating some tumors and cancers such as liver, prostate, colon, skin and breast cancer, clinical studies lacking; Olive leaf is especially potent when used in combination with other antioxidants.

Paul Iribe

In a corollary illustration, her prostate figure is lying at the feet of a gravedigger readying to bury the grandeur of France; the gravedigger is Édouard Daladier, the Prime Minister of the French Republic.

Prostate

In human prostatic secretions, the protein content is less than 1% and includes proteolytic enzymes, prostatic acid phosphatase, beta-microseminoprotein, and prostate-specific antigen.

Prostate cancer screening

American Cancer Society, in its cancer screening guidelines says that it does not support routine screening for prostate cancer.

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has recently updated its guidelines making clear that it does not recommend routine prostate cancer screening for all men.

Stephen Hahn

From 1993-95, he served as chief of the National Cancer Institute’s Prostate Cancer Clinic, Clinical Pharmacology Branch, in Bethesda, Maryland, and as a senior investigator at the NCI.

Vancouver Prostate Centre

The Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC) is a prostate cancer research centre located in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Vancouver Prostate Centre is hosted by the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and the University of British Columbia, and receives substantial financial support from the VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation.

Whey Acidic Protein

There have been several candidate markers for cancer; most notably genes coding for elafin, antileukoproteinase 1 (previously called secretory leucocyte proteinase inhibitor, SLPI), WAP four disulphide core domain protein 1 (previously called prostate stromal protein 20 kDa, PS20), and WAP four disulphide core domain protein 2 (previously called major human epididymis-specific protein E4, HE4).

Wilhelm Stekel

Stekel committed suicide in London by taking an overdose of Aspirin "to end the pain of his prostate and the diabetic gangrene".

ZERO—The Project to End Prostate Cancer

ZERO supported other cancer organizations in 2009 in launching the "Stand Up to Cancer" awareness campaign featuring tennis pro John McEnroe, who encouraged men age 40 and older to get an annual prostate cancer check-up.


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