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Men with initial PSA elevations > 4 ng/ml or an abnormal DRE were biopsied and cancer cases were excluded.
Vallencian and colleagues biopsied 100 consecutive men with normal or non-suspicious digital rectal examinations and detected only 14 cancers, none with PSA levels below 10 ng/ml [ 29 ] . The Gann study provided the least biased estimate of sensitivity and specificity, but even these results were limited because asymptomatic cancers would not have been detected [ 24 ] . Additionally, serum was stored for about 10 years and PSA is not completely stable [ 30 31 ] .
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].
However, the specificity of PSA was probably overestimated because asymptomatic men were unlikely to be biopsied.
Affected tissues were biopsied as appropriate for the clinical signs.
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