Nanocytological field carcinogenesis detection to mitigate overdiagnosis of prostate cancer: a proof of concept study.

To determine whether nano-architectural interrogation of prostate field carcinogenesis can be used to predict prognosis in patients with early stage (Gleason 6) prostate cancer (PCa), which is mostly indolent but frequently unnecessarily treated.We previously developed partial wave spectroscopic mic...

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Main Authors: Hemant K Roy, Charles B Brendler, Hariharan Subramanian, Di Zhang, Charles Maneval, John Chandler, Leah Bowen, Karen L Kaul, Brian T Helfand, Chi-Hsiung Wang, Margo Quinn, Jacqueline Petkewicz, Michael Paterakos, Vadim Backman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4338151?pdf=render