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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2010 Jun 1;116(11):2612–2620. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25010

Table 3.

Biopsies conducted and cancers detected per 1000 men with elevated PSA and with recent screening, using as a threshold for biopsy a 20% or higher probability of cancer. Cancers with biopsy Gleason score 7 or higher were considered high grade.

No. biopsies: No. cancers: No. high-grade cancers:

performed reduced (%) caught missed (%) caught missed (%)
Biopsy all 1000 n/a 259 n/a 43 n/a
Models developed with never screened men and applied to recently screened men
Laboratory model
 Risk ≥ 20%: total PSA, age 245 755 (76%) 72 187 (72%) 20 23 (53%)
 Risk ≥ 20%: kallikrein panel, age 268 732 (73%) 106 153 (59%) 31 12 (28%)
Clinical model
 Risk ≥ 20%: total PSA, age, DRE 146 854 (85%) 63 196 (76%) 20 23 (53%)
 Risk ≥ 20%: kallikrein panel, age, DRE 258 742 (74%) 113 146 (56%) 32 11 (26%)
Models developed with recently screened men and applied to recently screened men
Laboratory model
 Risk ≥ 20%: total PSA, age 857 143 (14%) 234 25 (10%) 42 1 (2%)
 Risk ≥ 20%: total PSA, free PSA, age 724 276 (28%) 211 48 (19%) 41 2 (5%)
 Risk ≥ 20%: kallikrein panel, age 643 357 (36%) 212 47 (18%) 41 2 (5%)
Clinical model
 Risk ≥ 20%: total PSA, age, DRE 728 272 (27%) 207 52 (20%) 39 4 (9%)
 Risk ≥ 20%: total PSA, free PSA, age, DRE 631 369 (37%) 194 65 (25%) 38 5 (12%)
 Risk ≥ 20%: kallikrein panel, age, DRE 587 413 (41%) 199 60 (23%) 42 1 (2%)
Alternative clinical strategies applied to recently screened men
 Total PSA ≥ 4 ng/ml 305 695 (70%) 84 175 (68%) 22 21 (49%)
 Total PSA ≥ 4 ng/ml or positive DRE 367 633 (63%) 116 143 (55%) 29 14 (33%)