Already available, designed to reduce unneeded biopsies
May 18, 2015 ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A new urine-based test improves prostate cancer detection – including detecting more aggressive forms of prostate cancer – compared to traditional models based on prostate serum antigen, or PSA, levels, a new study finds.
The test, developed at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, is called Mi-Prostate Score, or MiPS. It combines PSA with two markers for prostate cancer, T2:ERG and PCA3, both of which can be detected through a urine sample. The test has been available clinically since September 2013. ...continue reading Urine-Based Test Improves on PSA for Detecting Prostate Cancer