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Polygenic Risk Score - the “new and improved” PSA screening result
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jun 13 8:02pm | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
Easier and more-effective screening sounds promising. It's not directly relevant to any of us here (most of us have already been biopsied, so we know what kind of PCa we have), but if it keeps some people from needing to join the forum in the first place, that will be a good thing.
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Understand your comment, but I’d imagine many on this site have family and friends who have yet to have a PCa screening test.
If/when our loved ones time comes, a more definitive, personalized, easy to obtain test will help reduce the “black hole” of uncertainty that attended our “higher, but normal PSA range” early days.
As a researcher myself, this kind of work pushes the envelope towards better medicine and…who knows…may lead to better personalized predictive metastatic risk analysis, regarding PCa progression, for those of us already diagnosed with low and intermediate risk disease.
Decipher genomic testing (post biopsy) has already demonstrated its value and maybe this technology can move the needle even further toward understanding progression risks, at lower cost, prebiopsy.