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PSA

See: Public Securities Association.

Security Industry and Financial Markets Association

Formerly known as the Public Securities Association, a professional organization for banks, broker-dealers, and other organizations that underwrite securities. It serves as a lobbying group and provides education and training to members and non-members. It maintains offices in New York, Washington DC, and London, with affiliated offices in Hong Kong and other locations.

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Serum prostate-specific antigen as a predictor of prostate volume and lower urinary tract symptoms in a community-based cohort: A large-scale Korean screening study.

Clinicopathological correlation of serum prostate specific antigen levels in patients of prostatomegaly in a tertiary care hospital

Operation characteristics of prostate-specific antigen in men with an initial PSA level of 3.

Prostate cancer screening: Canadian guidelines 2011

Editorial comment on: Prostate-specific antigen improves the ability of clinical stage and biopsy Gleason sum to predict the pathologic stage at radical prostatectomy in the new millennium.

Detection of complexes between prostate-specific antigen and protease inhibitors in plasma

Activation of prostate-specific antigen precursor (pro-PSA) by prostin, a ennui human prostatic serine protease identified by degeneorato PCR.

Total, free and complexed PSA and hK2 for early detection of prostate cancer. (Cover Story)

Using proportions of free to total prostate-specific antigen to predict the probability of prostate cancer.

Does the reflexive measurement of free PSA have a role in a tertiary cancer centre?

Whereas a single marker, such as prostate-specific antigen, may mislead a physician, simultaneous readings of multiple plasma proteins should be more definitive.

Blood work: scientists seek to identify all the proteins in plasma

PSA = prostate-specific antigen; PSADT = prostate-specific antigen doubling time; HRPC = hormone-refractory prostate cancer

A rapid PSA half-life following docetaxel chemotherapy is associated with improved survival in hormone refractory prostate cancer

Serum prostate-specific antigen complexed to a1-antichymotrypsin as an indicator of prostate cancer.

Reproducibility and accuracy of measurements of free and total prostate-specific antigen in serum vs plasma after long-term storage at -20 [degrees]C

They next exposed each man's cells to genetic material that normally encodes the protein known as prostate-specific antigen (PSA), which increases steadily in men with growing prostate cancer.

Immune cells target cancerous tissue. (Vaccine Power)

NEW ORLEANS -- Screening for prostate-specific antigen at 2-year intervals detects prostate cancer as effectively as annual screening and cuts the prostate biopsy rate by 50%.

Biannual PSA Screens Are Safe, Effective

In contrast to other prostate-related antigens, such as prostate-specific antigen (PSA), prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) and prostate secretory protein, PSMA is a membrane glycoprotein that is not secreted.

Expanded Role for Cytogen's PROSTASCINT(R) Incorporated Into NCCN(R) Clinical Practice Guidelines

The landscape of prostate cancer has changed since the appearance of the first prostate-specific antigen (PSA) assay.

Standardization of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) assays: can interchangeability of PSA measurements be improved?