Active surveillance monitoring: the role of novel biomarkers and imaging

Asian J Androl. 2015 Nov-Dec;17(6):882-4; discussion 883. doi: 10.4103/1008-682X.156858.

Abstract

"CANCER" is a disease state that leads to progressive illness that is uniformly fatal without treatment. Hippocrates invoked the Greek word karkinos, or "crab," to describe tumors he observed. For centuries, "CANCER" remained a disease that was recognized primarily in its locally advanced or metastatic stage, when it was almost uniformly fatal.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antigens, Neoplasm / blood
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / blood*
  • Humans
  • Image-Guided Biopsy
  • Kallikreins / blood
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Grading
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen / blood
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / blood*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Protein Precursors / blood
  • Serine Endopeptidases / blood
  • Trans-Activators / blood
  • Transcriptional Regulator ERG
  • Watchful Waiting / methods*

Substances

  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • ERG protein, human
  • Protein Precursors
  • Trans-Activators
  • Transcriptional Regulator ERG
  • prostate cancer antigen 3, human
  • KLK3 protein, human
  • Kallikreins
  • Serine Endopeptidases
  • TMPRSS2 protein, human
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen