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Men with initial PSA elevations > 4 ng/ml or an abnormal DRE were biopsied and cancer cases were excluded.
Affected tissues were biopsied as appropriate for the clinical signs.
Accurately estimating the true and false negative rates for PSA requires that men with normal PSA values undergo biopsy, but we found only one small urologic series where all PSA-tested subjects were subsequently biopsied.
Some investigators are now recommending that lower PSA cutpoints should be used as an indication for prostate biopsy [ 37 38 39 ] . Catalona and colleagues detected cancer in 22% of men biopsied with PSA levels between 2.6 to 4 ng/ml [ 37 ] and Lodding and colleagues detected cancers in 13% of men with PSA values between 3 to 4 ng/ml [ 39 ] . We found that lowering the cutpoint to 2 ng/ml, while greatly increasing sensitivity, led to an 80% false positive rate.
However, of 9 patients followed by regular bronchoscopy at 6-month time intervals, 4 developed lung cancer at sites that had previously been biopsied and interpreted as normal bronchial epithelium [ 8].