The PROFILE Feasibility Study: Targeted Screening of Men With a Family History of Prostate Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A better assessment of individualized prostate cancer (PrCa) risk is needed to improve screening. The use of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level for screening in the general population has limitations and is not currently advocated. Approximately 100 common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been identified that are associated with the risk of developing PrCa. The PROFILE pilot study explored the feasibility of using SNP profiling in men with a family history (FH) of PrCa to investigate the probability of detecting PrCa at prostate biopsy (PB). The primary aim of this pilot study was to determine the safety and feasibility of PrCa screening using transrectal ultrasound-guided PB with or without diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) in men

SUBMITTER: Castro E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4912360 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature