Abstract
EDITOR,—In their evaluation of measurement of the prostate specific antigen concentration as a screening test for prostatic cancer Carol Parkes and colleagues advocate the use of values expressed as multiples of the median value in a healthy population matched for age.1 Currently, laboratories report actual numerical values for prostate specific antigen. The authors do not discuss the technical difficulties in measuring the low prostate specific antigen concentrations seen in healthy men, which …
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