Diagnostic, Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer

• Main Author: Carsten Stephan (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2017
• Subjects: Medicine; urinary biomarkers on prostate cancer; serum/plasma biomarkers; multivariate models; prognostic factors; tissue biomarkers (nuleic acid/protein-based)
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the Western world. Therefore, its early diagnosis in particular, which is mainly based on serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA), has gained attention in several fields of research. New biomarkers in serum and urine have been described, for example,...