Psychological impact of serial prostate-specific antigen tests in Japanese men waiting for prostate biopsy

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• 作者：Minoru Kobayashi ; Akinori Nukui ; Takao Kamai
• 关键词：Anxiety ; Depression ; Prostate ; specific antigen ; Prostate cancer
• 刊名：International Journal of Clinical Oncology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：22
• 期：1
• 页码：174-180
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Oncology; Surgical Oncology; Cancer Research;
• 出版者：Springer Japan
• ISSN：1437-7772
• 卷排序：22

文摘

BackgroundIt is common to repeat prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurements for men with intermediate PSA elevation before prostate biopsy. In this scenario, men with persistently elevated PSA values may have considerable psychological distress. We attempted to determine whether elevated PSA values have psychological effects on these men in association with the timing of measurement, PSA kinetics, and biopsy results.