A Comparative Study of Serum Prostate Specific Antigen Levels in Patients Suffering from Prostatic & Non-prostatic Cancers

Abstract

Introduction: Prostatic specific antigen (PSA) is an important tumor marker of prostatic cancer and antigenic determinant of prostatic tissue. However, recently, results of several researches have proposed existence of PSA in non- prostatic tumors, extracts . In this study, our goal was to find that if patients with non-prostatic cancers synthesize PSA.