Prostate cancer test ExoDx

BobsProstate
BobsProstate Member Posts: 56
edited December 2022 in Prostate Cancer
Have any of you used this test? It's a urine sample test instead of a biopsy for diagnosing

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  • fusilier
    fusilier Member Posts: 22
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41391-020-0237-z

    "The ExoDx Prostate(IntelliScore) (EPI) test is a non-invasive risk assessment tool for detection of high-grade prostate cancer (HGPC) that informs whether to proceed with prostate biopsy. "

    Think about it this way: Your PSA score is about 3.5; doc says, "see you next year." Your PSA score is about 4; doc says "biopsy time." Biopsy comes back clean, but you are going to get a biopsy every year or so, from now on, just to be safe.

    With this new test, Your PSA score is 4; doc says "do this next test." It comes back clean; doc says "see you next year." It comes back not-so-clean; doc says "biopsy time."

    The difference is that with the new test, guys get spared a biopsy lots more often.

    fusilier

    James 2:24

    (I am NOT an MD, this is just for illustration.)

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